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Solaris 11 IPS hand-on LAB – Creating IPS repository Solaris 11 IPS hand-on LAB – Managing software Packages Solaris 11 IPS hand-on LAB – Boot environments Boot Environments Boot environments in solaris 11 are multiple images with different kernel, software applications and packages. Only one boot environment can be active at a time. We can boot into different boot environments according to our need. The command to manage boot environments in solaris is beadm. BEs are extremely useful in … [Read more...] about Solaris 11 IPS hand-on LAB – Boot environments

Solaris 11 IPS hand-on LAB – Creating IPS repository Solaris 11 IPS hand-on LAB – Managing software Packages Solaris 11 IPS hand-on LAB – Boot environments In the last post we created an IPS repository. Let us now see how we can manage the software packages in solaris 11. Now oracle has completely restructured the software management in Solaris 11 to simplify the software package administration. Lets start with some pkg commands. Publisher Related Commands To see which publisher … [Read more...] about Solaris 11 IPS hand-on LAB – Managing software Packages

Solaris 11 IPS hand-on LAB – Creating IPS repository Solaris 11 IPS hand-on LAB – Managing software Packages Solaris 11 IPS hand-on LAB – Boot environments Oracle Solaris 11 uses a completely new approach for package management. Now with Image packaging system (IPS) a system administrator can install, update and search packages from local or remote repository. The repository can be accessed with both command line and GUI interface. The repository can be any one of the following : 1. Local … [Read more...] about Solaris 11 IPS hand-on LAB – Creating IPS repository