I'm good at installing package in linux envrionment but newbie to solaris OS. I'm in a bit urgent to install python - libxml2 package to my project. Does the below command will also work in solaris server for installation??
sudo apt-get install libxml2 libxml2-dev
I have tried googling, unfortunately not able to get. Can someone help me out?
The short answer: no, apt doesn't exist on Solaris.
The command to install packages in Solaris 10 is pkgadd. For this you'll need a package in the correct format. You might start by looking in sunfreeware.com. Once you've downloaded the package and gunzip/uncompressed it, you can do
pkgadd -d . SFWlibxml2 <-- replace with real package name
The Solaris 10 package management system only has a very rudimentary grasp of package dependencies, and might not prompt you to go and get other packages you need. The need for them will hopefully become obvious when you're a bit further down the line.
Of course the alternative is to build it from source, which may or may not be arduous depending on your level of skill.
The Solaris equivalent of apt-get is pkgutil. It's an open source program (not from Oracle). It uses pkgadd under the hood, and its main functionality is automatic dependency resolution and package fetching.
The libxml package is provided by OpenCSW. Here's how to install it on Solaris 10:
pkgadd -d http://www.opencsw.org/pkg_get.pkg
/opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -U -y -i libxml2_dev libxml2_2
The -U flag will fetch the newest list of packages, the -y flag will make installation skip any y/n confirmations, and -i is equivalent to install in apt-get. The pkgutil utility will automatically fetch and install all dependencies.
After installation, the library will be in the /opt/csw/lib directory and the C/C++ header files will be in /opt/csw/include.
Another solution is to use Solaris 11 rather than Solaris 10.
In Solaris 11 you'll find that Python is there by default (actually you cannot even get rid of it because Solaris IPS feature depends on it).
Here is what you'll find by default on a Solaris 11.1 host:
Python 2.6.8 (unknown, Aug 30 2012, 01:56:38) [C] on sunos5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> help('modules')
Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules...
BaseHTTPServer cPickle keyword runpy
Bastion cProfile lib2to3 sched
CDIO cStringIO libbe select
CGIHTTPServer calendar libbe_py sets
ConfigParser cgi libxml2 setuptools
Cookie cgitb libxml2mod sgmllib
DLFCN cherrypy libxslt sha
DocXMLRPCServer chunk libxsltmod shelve
HTMLParser cmath linecache shlex
IN cmd locale shutil
M2Crypto code logging signal
MimeWriter codecs lxml simplejson
OpenSSL codeop macpath site
Pyrex collections macurl2path smtpd
Queue colorsys mailbox smtplib
STROPTS commands mailcap sndhdr
SUNAUDIODEV compileall mako socket
SimpleHTTPServer compiler markupbase solaris
SimpleXMLRPCServer contextlib marshal solaris_install
SocketServer cookielib math spwd
StringIO copy md5 sqlite3
TYPES copy_reg mhlib sre
UserDict crypt mimetools sre_compile
UserList csv mimetypes sre_constants
UserString ctypes mimify sre_parse
_LWPCookieJar curl mmap ssl
_MozillaCookieJar curses modulefinder stat
__builtin__ datetime multifile statvfs
__future__ dbhash multiprocessing string
_abcoll dbm mutex stringold
_ast decimal netrc stringprep
_bisect difflib netsnmp strop
_bytesio dircache new struct
_codecs dis nis subprocess
_codecs_cn distutils nntplib sunau
_codecs_hk dl nss sunaudio
_codecs_iso2022 dlpi ntpath sunaudiodev
_codecs_jp doctest nturl2path symbol
_codecs_kr docutils numbers symtable
_codecs_tw drv_libxml2 numpy sys
_collections dumbdbm opcode syslog
_csv dummy_thread operator tabnanny
_ctypes dummy_threading optparse tarfile
_curses easy_install os telnetlib
_curses_panel email os2emxpath tempfile
_elementtree encodings osol_install terminalui
_fileio errno parser termios
_functools exceptions pdb textwrap
_hashlib fcntl pickle this
_heapq filecmp pickletools thread
_hotshot fileinput pipes threading
_json fnmatch pkg time
_locale formatter pkg_resources timeit
_lsprof fpformat pkgutil toaiff
_multibytecodec fractions platform token
_multiprocessing ftplib plistlib tokenize
_random functools ply trace
_socket future_builtins popen2 traceback
_sqlite3 gc poplib tty
_sre gdbm posix types
_ssl genericpath posixfile ucred
_strptime getopt posixpath unicodedata
_struct getpass pprint unittest
_symtable gettext privileges urllib
_threading_local glob profile urllib2
_warnings grp pstats urlparse
_weakref gzip pty user
abc hashlib pwd uu
aifc heapq py_compile uuid
anydbm hmac pybonjour warnings
array hotshot pyclbr wave
ast htmlentitydefs pycurl weakref
asynchat htmllib pydoc webbrowser
asyncore httplib pydoc_topics whichdb
atexit idlelib pyexpat wsgiref
audiodev ihooks quopri xcbgen
audioop imageop random xdrlib
base64 imaplib rbac xml
bdb imghdr re xmllib
beadm imp readline xmlrpclib
binascii imputil repr xxsubtype
binhex inspect resource zfs
bisect io rexec zipfile
bootadm-helper itertools rfc822 zipimport
bootmgmt json rlcompleter zlib
bz2 jsonrpclib robotparser
Yes, libxml2 is there. No need to fiddle with anything.
