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I’m completey new to Solaris, coming from a Linux background. I would like to know how can I install developement tools such as gcc, g++ etc… on Solaris and also any other program. Is there any equivalent of apt-get, sudo etc… Secondly, what is the advantage of OpenSolaris over Oracle Solaris.
Some web searching turns up BlastWave. It’s payware. The
pkgin/pkgsrcpackage manager, originally from NetBSD, has also been ported to Solaris.If you’re not tied to a specific Solaris version, then you might be interested in the OpenSolaris distro Nexenta, which has a GNU/Linux userland ported over from Ubuntu, including the Debian package manager and
apt-get. (There’s your Solaris vs. OpenSolaris difference; also, I’m not sure if OpenSolaris runs on SPARC hardware.)