GNOME 2.0 Desktop for the Solaris Operating Environment Installation Guide

Before You Begin

Read this section before you download and install the GNOME 2.0 Desktop.

Installers for Different Platforms

You can download the following installers for the GNOME 2.0 Desktop, depending on your platform:

Installer with patches for the Solaris 8 Operating Environment, SPARC Architecture Edition
Installer with patches for the Solaris 9 Operating Environment, SPARC Architecture Edition
Installer with patches for the Solaris 8 Operating Environment, x86 Architecture Edition
Installer with patches for the Solaris 9 Operating Environment, x86 Architecture Edition

After you unpack the installer, you install the desktop environment software using the Install Wizard, which is the graphical user interface for the installer.

Installer Contents

Table 1–1 lists the contents of the desktop environment installer.

Table 1–1 Contents of the Desktop Environment Installer


Software	Size	Installed in...
Platform-independent data files	66 MB	`/usr/share`
Platform-dependent configuration files	4 MB	`/etc`
Platform-dependent desktop environment files	45 MB	`/usr`
System-specific data files	<1 MB	`/var`
Optional 64-bit libraries	11 MB	`/usr/lib/sparcv9`
Optional development packages	14 MB	`/usr`
Platform-independent optional development packages	18 MB	`/usr/share`

Note –

The GNOME 2.0 Desktop is an English-language version only. You can install locales separately on top of the English-language base.