Solaris(tm) Software Companion                      September, 2008

The Solaris(tm) Software Companion is a collection of useful and
popular software for use in conjunction with the Solaris 10 Operating
Environment on both the SPARC and Intel architectures.  This software
consists of many public domain or freely available programs including
utilities, productivity and development tools and much more.

These packages should only be installed on Solaris 10 Update 5 or higher.
They are not built to work on Update 4 or lower.  You will need to use
the older Companion packages for those versions of Solaris.   For details
on how to obtain older Companion packages, see the contact information
at the end of this file.

The software on this DVD is offered to you for free as a convenience
as it may complement your Solaris Operating Environment.  No warranty
is made on any of this software;  please read the accompanying 
Legal Notice for details.  

Support and assistance with this software is not provided by Sun 
Microsystems, Inc. You may freely copy the contents of this DVD.

PLEASE NOTE: INSTALLATION CHANGES

To install the packages contained on the September 2008 Companion DVD:

1. You must have installed at least the packages contained in the 
SUNWCuser cluster.  You will also need to be sure that you have 
allocated enough disk space in /var and /opt.  You should have 
3.5 GB in /opt and 65 MB in /var.

The Companion packages are located on the DVD as follows:

SPARC:  Solaris_Software_Companion/Solaris_sparc/Packages
x86:  Solaris_Software_Companion/Solaris_i386/Packages

2. To install the packages, use the pkgadd (1M) command.

For example, to install a single package, cd to the directory
where the packages are located and execute the following command
as root.

# pkgadd -d `pwd`  <pkg_name>

To install all of the packages without interacting with each
package installation, create an installation administration file 
containing the following information.

# cat /var/tmp/admin

mail=
conflict=nocheck
setuid=nocheck
action=nocheck
partial=nocheck
instance=overwrite
idepend=nocheck
rdepend=nocheck
space=check

Then cd to the location of the packages and, as root, execute:

# pkgadd -a /var/tmp/admin -d `pwd`

3. Source code compressed tar files for all the package on this DVD are
contained in the Source directory.

Sources can be viewed by using gunzip on .gz files, bunzip2 on
.bz2 files, and uncompress on .Z files.  Run tar xvf on the
resulting tar files to see the source.

Questions about any of the above files can be sent to
Steven.Christensen@Sun.COM.