title: Install RealVNC from Solaris 10 Companion link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/install-realvnc-from-solaris-10-companion/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 203 created: 2010/01/05 16:39:08 created_gmt: 2010/01/05 16:39:08 comment_status: open post_name: install-realvnc-from-solaris-10-companion status: publish post_type: post

Install RealVNC from Solaris 10 Companion

We recently put two brand new Sparc boxes up running Solaris 10. One thing I wanted to have was an easy way to do a shared remote session with my guys, as well as run any X-centric software we may need (like Sun’s Directory Resource Kit 5.2).

RealVNC is available as a native package on the free Solaris 10 Companion CD. To get it all you need to do is download the iso, mount and then run pkgadd.

Steps are below.

1. Download the .iso image. To save time and bandwidth I brought it down right onto the server, since it was Internet connected, using wget. After navigating the download maze I copied the link and pasted it into my wget command. The file name was absurdly long, but that was easily corrected by renaming with mv (enclosing the original long file name in quotes should help the shell with any problems it has interpreting it).

2. Mount the image. On Solaris 10 this is a two step process. First you have to make a block device for the .iso thus (all commands performed as root):

lofiadm -a pwd sol-10-u8-companion-ga.iso

This results in the creation of /dev/lofi/1

Then you have to mount the new block device:

mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt

3. Install the package:

cd /mnt/Solaris_Software_Companion/Solaris_sparc/Packages

pkgadd -d pwd SFWvnc

That’s all there is to it!

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