GNOME 2.0 Desktop for the Solaris Operating Environment Installation Guide

To Unpack the Installer

Perform the following steps to unpack the installer:

  1. Use the cd command to change into the directory where you downloaded the tar file for the installer.

  2. Depending on your system platform, execute one of the following commands to unpack the installer:

    SPARC Architecture Edition: 

    gunzip -c gnome-2_0-fcs-solaris8-sparc.tar.gz | tar xvpf -

    gunzip -c gnome-2_0-fcs-solaris9-sparc.tar.gz | tar xvpf -

    x86 Architecture Edition:  

    gunzip -c gnome-2_0-fcs-solaris8-x86.tar.gz | tar xvpf -

    gunzip -c gnome-2_0-fcs-solaris9-x86.tar.gz | tar xvpf -

  3. When the installer is fully unpacked, you can delete the downloaded file to free up disk space. Use one of the following commands:

    SPARC Architecture Edition: 

    rm gnome-2_0-fcs-solaris8-sparc.tar.gz

    rm gnome-2_0-fcs-solaris9-sparc.tar.gz

    x86 Architecture Edition:  

    rm gnome-2_0-fcs-solaris8-x86.tar.gz

    rm gnome-2_0-fcs-solaris9-x86.tar.gz