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Where is the Solaris 10 u11 companion disc?

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Nemo

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Mar 4, 2013, 10:35:51 AM3/4/13
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Is is included with the main download? I cannot seem to find a separate
file.

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John D Groenveld

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Mar 4, 2013, 2:43:59 PM3/4/13
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In article <E93Zs.15$Nq...@newsfe21.iad>, Nemo <ne...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>Is is included with the main download? I cannot seem to find a separate
>file.

The Companion CD is longer produced.
For which package are you looking?

John
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Nemo

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Mar 6, 2013, 11:30:05 AM3/6/13
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Hhhmmm. There are many dozens of packages in /opt/sfw, and not in
/usr/sfw, that I use regularly. Are they now in /usr/sfw or are they
simply gone?

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John D Groenveld

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Mar 6, 2013, 11:53:10 AM3/6/13
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In article <51376F0D...@invalid.invalid>,
Nemo <ne...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>Hhhmmm. There are many dozens of packages in /opt/sfw, and not in
>/usr/sfw, that I use regularly. Are they now in /usr/sfw or are they
>simply gone?

Is this the contents of the Freeware Companion CD?
<URL:http://dlc.sun.com/osol/companion/downloads/current/pkgs/i386/>

Not sure which ones are now included in Solaris 10.
John
groe...@acm.org

Sven Marcel Buchholz

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Mar 6, 2013, 1:07:29 PM3/6/13
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Hi,

take a look at:

http://www.sunfreeware.com/companioncd.html

Greetings

Sven

Doug McIntyre

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Mar 7, 2013, 1:10:23 PM3/7/13
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The differentiation (at least at last time I looked at it), was that
the base packages that were bundled freeware (ie. gcc) were located
into /usr/sfw. The Companion CD typically put the unbundled freeware
into /opt/sfw instead.

If they moved a package from the companion CD to the base bundle, it
most likely changed paths from /opt/sfw to /usr/sfw as well.

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