Creating IPS repository on Solaris 11

Oracle has completely changed patching and packaging system on Solaris 11, now it's call as a (IPS)Image packaging system, we can install, update and search packages from repository locally or remotely. We can design our repository one of the following method: 1. Local repository (server it self) 2. Remote repository in Internal network (with in our local network) 3. Internet(online)repository (http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/) Some...

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Install / Enable GUI desktop on Solaris 11 x86 platform

By default, the soalris11 text based installation will not install complete package. It will install minimum / default packages. If you want to use GUI desktop, we have to install desktop GUI package from the IPS repository.  We can install these package from online if you have a internet connection or if you have a local repository then you can install those packages from there.  Generally Solaris11 will pickup all the dependency...

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