Sunday, April 27, 2008
First BOSUG meet after BeleniX 0.7
Yesterday, we (BOSUG - Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group) held our first meeting after the release of BeleniX 0.7
It was an occasion to celebrate.
There were a few new people attending the meeting & interested in knowing what opensolaris was all about and how the community operated. We had a fairly lengthy discussion covering a wide range of topics.
The UG kits had arrived recently and the participants were provided with the same.
Snaps are available at flickr
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Additional softwares/packages for BeleniX 0.7
The default installation of BeleniX 0.7 bundles a whole bunch of softwares to address most of the needs of a desktop user.
If the system is connected to the net, there are many more packages available for installation at a command's distance using the
To display the different clusters of packages available for installation, try
The different clusters of packages shown above are "as of now". Execute the command as above to get the up-to-date list at any given point of time.
Those interested in having a tool chain for performing builds would need to install the devel cluster. To install the devel cluste, as root user, execute
For those interested in knowing the list of packages in a cluster, the file for the individual cluster is stored as
To have a pkgbuild environment for building the spec files
The get-pkgs facility for pulling and installing softwares is a stop gap arrangement till we have a network repository of our own.
If the system is connected to the net, there are many more packages available for installation at a command's distance using the
get-pkgs
command.To display the different clusters of packages available for installation, try
$ get-pkgs
** Fetching catalog ...
--12:09:42-- http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/binfiles/extra_packages/catalog
=> `/tmp/get-pkg/catalog'
Resolving www.genunix.org... 204.152.191.100
Connecting to www.genunix.org|204.152.191.100|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 307 [text/plain]
0K 100% 6.34 MB/s
12:09:43 (6.34 MB/s) - `/tmp/get-pkg/catalog' saved [307/307]
Usage: get-pkg <cluster>
Where <cluster> can be one of the following:
devel - Development headers and GCC
kde_extra - Additional KDE packages like Kdevelop, Kdeedu etc.
amp - Apache MySQL PHP
gnome_extra - Extra GNOME stuff and Gimp
java - JDK5, JAM and Ant
l10n - Localization packages
misc - Miscellaneous packages like Quagga, Evolution, Storage drivers etc.
postgres - PostgreSQL packages
The different clusters of packages shown above are "as of now". Execute the command as above to get the up-to-date list at any given point of time.
Those interested in having a tool chain for performing builds would need to install the devel cluster. To install the devel cluste, as root user, execute
$ get-pkgs devel
For those interested in knowing the list of packages in a cluster, the file for the individual cluster is stored as
/var/tmp/get-pkgs/<cluster-name>
To have a pkgbuild environment for building the spec files
- Install the devel cluster using get-pkgs
- Download and install Sun Studio 11
- Download JDS CBE and Install CBEpkgbuild(along with the mandatory dependencies)
- Modify your user .bashrc to source /opt/jdsbld/bin/envsh
The get-pkgs facility for pulling and installing softwares is a stop gap arrangement till we have a network repository of our own.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
BeleniX 0.7 is released !
Yesterday, I sent out the announcement of BeleniX 0.7 release.
A simple demo of the LiveCD, the softwares available in the LiveCD and the installation process is availabe here. (~7.5mb flash file, will take sometime)
Try it out, provide feedback, contribute to BeleniX...
A simple demo of the LiveCD, the softwares available in the LiveCD and the installation process is availabe here. (~7.5mb flash file, will take sometime)
Try it out, provide feedback, contribute to BeleniX...
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