Using the Installer to Install Book Collections

The Documentation media include a point-and-click interface called “installer” that you can use to install documentation collections.

You can also use standard utilities, such as pkgadd. See Using pkgadd to Install Book Collections.

Prior to performing a full installation or a partial installation of book collections, you must first uninstall any previously installed book collections. The install process will not overwrite an existing book collection with a new collection that has the same part number. You must first uninstall the existing book collection.

You can uninstall documentation packages by using the pkgrm command. See the pkgrm(1M) man page for instructions.

To install the document collections by using the installer, perform the following steps.

Steps

1. Insert the Solaris 10 Documentation media into the appropriate drive.

   The Volume Manager should mount the media automatically.

2. Double-click the installer icon and follow the instructions on the screens.

3. Select Run.

   This selection will open the command line, which displays any error messages.

4. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

   Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

5. After selecting Next in the Welcome screen, select Typical or Custom then click Next to continue.

   The Typical option installs all document collections on the media in HTML format for your default locale. The Custom option enables you to install specific collections or collections in PDF format, such as localized collections.

   • For a typical installation, the Ready to Install dialog box is displayed. Go to Step Six.

   • Alternately, for a custom install, first select the preferred locales and select Next.

     1. Select the collections you want to install and select Next.

        The default directory, the /opt directory, is displayed.

     2. Select Next.

        Component Selections are displayed.

     3. Review Component Selections and select Next.

        The Ready to Install dialog box is displayed.

6. Select Install Now.

   The Installing Solaris 10 Documentation GUI is displayed. The status bar shows the progress of the installation.

7. To view the installed collections, start an HTML 3.2-compliant web browser, such as Mozilla^TM, and open the /var/opt/sun_docs/sundocs.html file.