How to Download the Patch Management Tools From SunSolve Online

The Solaris patch management tools are available for both the SPARC and x86 platforms.

1. Go to http://www.sun.com/PatchPro.

2. To begin the download process, go to the section that describes Patch Manager and click the download link.

   The binary code license agreement appears.

3. Agree to the terms of the binary code license agreement.

   • To accept the license agreement, click Agree.

     The Patch Manager download page appears.

   • To reject the license agreement, click Cancel.

     You are not permitted to download the software.

4. Identify the Solaris version and platform of your local system to get the appropriate patch management tool.

   1. Determine which version of Solaris you need:

      • Solaris 2.6

      • Solaris 7

      • Solaris 8

      • Solaris 9

   2. Click the README link associated with the Solaris version you chose to get information about installing the patch management tool.

   3. Click the platform link associated with the version of Solaris that this tool supports.

      • Click SPARC to download the SPARC version of the patch management tool.

      • Click x86 to download the x86 version of the patch management tool.

5. Choose a directory on your local system in which to download and extract the tool.

   For example, you might create a directory called /export/download/patchpro.

   Ensure that this directory can be written by superuser.

6. Download the software tar file to that directory.

   The software you selected is downloaded.

7. Become superuser.

8. Change to the directory in which you downloaded the tar file.

   # cd /export/download/patchpro

9. Extract the patch management tool from the tar file.

   • If you are downloading the tar file for Solaris 2.6 or Solaris 7, the tar file is compressed.

     # zcat pproSunOSsparc5.6jre2.2.tar.Z | tar xvf -

   • If you are downloading the tar file for Solaris 8 or Solaris 9, the tar file is in zip format.

     # gunzip -dc pproSunOSx865.9jre2.2.tar.gz | tar xvf -

   The name of the tar file indicates the operating system type, platform, and operating system version:

   ppro<OS><platform><OS version>jre2.2.tar

   For example, pproSunOSsparc5.8jre2.2.tar is the tar file that contains the patch management tool for the SPARC version of Solaris 8 (SunOS^TM 5.8). pproSunOSx865.9jre2.2.tar is the tar file that contains the patch management tool for the x86 version of Solaris 9 (SunOS 5.9).

Now, you can install and configure the tool on your system. See How to Install and Configure the Patch Management Tool in Interactive Mode or How to Install the Patch Management Tool in Non-Interactive Mode.