Creating your own package and publishing it
So far, we've been working using packages provided from Oracle or another place, but it would be nice if we could create and publish our own package. This recipe requires that we have basic experience with compiling and installing free software.
Getting ready
To follow this recipe, it's necessary that we have a machine (physical or virtual) running Oracle Solaris 11; we log in to the system as the root user and open a terminal. For example, we install a couple of packages such as system/header and gcc-45 and socat.
How to do it…
The first thing we need to do is install some required Oracle Solaris 11 packages, which will be necessary for the next steps:
root@solaris11:~# pkg install system/header
The gcc-45 ...
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