Installation guide

sections explain these steps in detail.
2.1.3.1. Downloading and Installing Additional Packages
This section steps you through the process of downloading and installing third-party applications and
the Red Hat Network applications from the Satellite onto the UNIX client.
Of primary importance is the Red Hat Update Agent for UNIX (up2date), which provides the link
between your client systems and Red Hat Network. The UNIX-specific version of the Red Hat Update
Agent is limited in functionality compared to its Linux counterpart but still enables system registration
and facilitates package installs and patches. See Section 2.1.4, “Unix Client Registration and Updates”
for a full description of the tool's options.
Note
It may be useful to enter the command bash when first logging into the Solaris client. If the BASH
shell is available, it will make the system's behavior as Linux-like as possible.
2.1.3.1.1. Install Third- Part y Packages
Installation of the Red Hat Network applications cannot proceed unless the following utilities and libraries
are present:
gzip
libgcc
openssl
zlib
The gzip utility is provided by the SUNW gzip package and may be downloaded from
http://www.sunfreeware.com.
On recent versions of Solaris, the necessary libraries are provided by the following natively installed
packages:
SUNWgccruntim e
SUNWopenssl*
SUNWzlib
For older Solaris versions, the following required packages may be downloaded from
http://www.sunfreeware.com:
SMClibgcc or SMCgcc
SMCossl
SMCzlib
To verify if a package is installed on the client, use the pkginfo command. For example, to check for a
package that contains "zlib" in the name, run the following command:
# pkginfo | grep zlib
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