OpenCSW is considered legacy, Solaris includes the 'pkg' utility these days with a huge list of open source software. OpenCSW is basically abandonware, nothing has been updated.
I did try to use pkg update --accept within a VM which succeeded, but of course it requires a reboot before it can install any new packages. I didn't see an obvious way to reboot and have it continue.
And you can't just run pkg install somepackage, you need to pass --no-refresh to tell it not to grab the latest package index since the current installed packages are so old.
OpenCSW is considered legacy, Solaris includes the 'pkg' utility these days with a huge list of open source software. OpenCSW is basically abandonware, nothing has been updated.
List of current pages in solaris's repo: http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/en/catalog.shtml
I did try to use
pkg update --accept
within a VM which succeeded, but of course it requires a reboot before it can install any new packages. I didn't see an obvious way to reboot and have it continue.And you can't just run
pkg install somepackage
, you need to pass--no-refresh
to tell it not to grab the latest package index since the current installed packages are so old.