On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:14:58PM +0100, Abdelkader DALI wrote: > I'd like to install a software on my redhat 8 system which has been designed > for SunOs. It requires pkgadd, pkginfo products. Do these products exist for > Linux ? pkgadd and friends are the tools that collectively make up the package management system under Solaris. Presumably, you're wanting to run Solaris executables under Linux, then. There are a whole bunch of problems with what you're probably trying to do (I say probably, because I'm making a few assumptions about your setup and motives). Solaris packages are really just cpio archives with a little semantic glue packed around them. So, technically, unpacking them under Linux shouldn't be incredibly hard (now that I think about it, raw cpio may just do the trick). You'll need to write these tools; to the best of my knowledge (someone will probably correct me as soon as I send this ;-), package-compatible versions of these don't exist right now. However, assuming you get past that, you now have a couple of problems: - You're (probably; I assume you're not running Solaris x86, because, well, if you are, you already have enough problems ;-) trying to run binaries for a completely different hardware platform. Not gonna work. Period. Unless someone has written "VMWare SPARC" while I've been dozing. ;-) If you're running Solaris x86, then... - You're trying to run binaries built for a completely differen operating system. Because Solaris and Linux have ELF in common, you might actually be able to get something working here by mass-importing libraries from Solaris until you have a working environment. But at that point, you're really just running Solaris on Linux, which begs the question of why you wouldn't just use Solaris for the job ;-) If you're skilled, you may be able to make something work, depending on the software and architecture it targets. But just use Solaris. Or get a Linux version of whatever software you're trying to run. You'll be much happier. -- Edward S. Marshall <esm@logic.net> http://esm.logic.net/ Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
