Installing the Solaris 8 Admin Pack Collections

Before the AnswerBook2 documentation server can do its job, you must install the documentation collections. See Table 4-1 for a list of the Admin Pack documentation collections.

Use the pkgadd utility to install the new book collections onto your server. If you are adding the Admin Pack document collections to an existing AnswerBook database, use either the Add Collection to List function or the ad2admin -o add_coll command to add the collections.

If collection packages are already installed on the documentation server, you can use the server's Scan for Locally Installed Collections function or the ab2admin -o scan command to have them automatically found and added to the server's documentation database. This function only works for locally installed packages.

To serve documentation collections located on another documentation server, use the Add Collection to List function or the ab2admin -o add_coll command and provide the full path name to the ab_cardcatalog or collinfo file. For example, if the document server is ab2docserver and you want it to serve the PPP 3.0.1 document collections on the system named bingo, you might type the following command:

ab2admin -o add_coll -d /net/bingo/opt/answerbooks/english/PPP_3.0.1/SUNWdsab