Re: Solaris and Icons

[shmem]

in reply to Solaris and Icons

At the Solaris DOS prompt, type

zcat latest.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd perl-*
./Configure
make
make test
make install

In the process, you will be asked a few question, but I guess you'll figure out. Come back to ask any time, preferably in the chatterbox.

[Kevin_Raymer]

that's another problem I having where is DOS on this thing?? they sure copied windows with this "java desktop" thing another problem is I can't find the file I downloaded

[Joost]

You are not serious are you? there is no DOS on UNIX, thank deity well there is but your colleagues won't thank you for writing batch scripts in dosemu.

edit: oh and perl should be already installed on solaris, so there's no need to do it yourself, and even if it isn't there, you should probably get your system administrator to install it machine-wide, since you probably don't have permissions to do that.

try this here: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/unixintro.html

[moklevat]

You shouldn't have to use perl if you don't want to. Fortunately, if your installation of solaris did not come pre-installed with DOS you can download it from here DOSEMU or here Wine.

[Argel]

Vanilla Solaris does not come with a compiler. The Software Companion CD/DVD does have gcc on it but that is not guarenteed to be installed and even if it is the PATH likely needs to be updated. For example:

export PATH="/usr/sfw/bin:/opt/sfw/bin/:$PATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/sfw/lib:/opt/sfw/lib/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"