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Overview of Installing SRC Components as Solaris Packages

The SRC software is constructed as a set of standard Solaris packages. You can use the Solaris package tools directly to install and remove SRC components. The tools are available as standard UNIX commands accessible through a shell command-line interface. See the Software Package Administration documentation for Solaris for detailed information. The admin installation file with the following entries is used:

mail=
instance=unique
partial=ask
runlevel=ask
idepend=nocheck
rdepend=ask
space=ask
setuid=nocheck
conflict=nocheck
action=nocheck
basedir=default

Refer to your Solaris documentation for more information about these settings. Also see the online UNIX man pages for the admin(4) utility. You cannot configure these settings with the GUI installation program.

CAUTION: The conflict=nocheck setting results in an automatic overwriting of existing files. If you use directory links (hard or soft), they will be replaced automatically with files from the installation media.


You can install the software into a directory or under a user identification. If you choose to install the software under a user identification, you specify a username. The name of the group associated with the user account must be the same as the username. The installation script expects the username and the group name to be the same.

Solaris IP Filter Software Installation Notes

If your host system hardware is based on 64-bit processors, then you must install ipfx (the 64-bit IP Filter package) before you install ipf (the 32-bit IP Filter package). Both packages must be installed for a 64-bit Solaris system. For 32-bit processors, install only ipf.

NOTE: For Solaris 9, install the packages from the solaris9 directory.



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