Chapter 1 STB Installation on OpenSolaris

STB on OpenSolaris currently supports Explorer at a minimum level of 6.0. The STB installer bundle on OpenSolaris will primarily do the following tasks:

• Detect if a depot server has been up and running for your environment.

  • If not, STB will setup and configure one for you.

  • If the depot server is already running, STB will deploy the IPS based Explorer packages files on it.

• After deploying the IPS packages, STB installs those packages on the client host by fetching it from the configured Depot server.

In order to perform these tasks STB requires a few inputs from the user. Thus it is advisable that the user collects this information before running the STB installer on OpenSolaris.

Prerequisites

• If the depot server is already running, the details like depot server URL and port are available.

• If the depot server is yet to be setup, the host and port number is chosen.

• STB Installer should be executed by the user who has sufficient privileges to install or remove an application and administer services (SMF)

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  Since the default installation of OpenSolaris does not expose the root account, privileged users should run pfexec to execute the commands as root. Example: pfexec ./install_stb_opensol.sh

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• The chosen depot server host is accessible via ssh from the client host where the STB installer is being executed and the user has sufficient privileges to perform remote login, configure and administer services (SMF).

• Approximately 53 MB of free disk space is available in the STB install path of the client host where the STB is being executed

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  STB installation path can be defined using the environmental variable STB_INST_PATH. For more details on STB_INST_PATH and its usage, refer to the question "If I do not have enough space in /tmp, can I still install STB?" in STB FAQ.

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• The user who installs Explorer IPS packages must be aware of the basics of IPS packaging on OpenSolaris. More information on OpenSolaris IPS packages can be found at:

  • http://opensolaris.org/sc/src/pkg/gate/src/man/pkg.5.txt

  • http://opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg/documents/

Although the default depot server authority for all IPS packages is set to OpenSolaris.org, STB installer cannot deploy the Explorer packages on OpenSolaris.org. The user must identify a host in the local network in order to be able to deploy and install IPS-based Explorer packages through the STB installer.