[tex-live] TeXLive 2008 installation over the Internet breaks for Solaris10 x86

[Michael E. Thomadakis]

Ettore,

I believe that s/w under /usr/sfw belong to the standard Solaris10  
distribution which derive from OSS sources. Indeed there is a gtar there:

mikefire1[pts/11]:~/e2 > /usr/sfw/bin/gtar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.17
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
...


Vendor's tar is under "/usr/bin/tar"

Note that some times people may install OSS packages under /usr/local/bin as 
for instance packages from 'sunfreeware.com' which derive from GNU. The tar 
there is GNU tar but it is called 'tar' which may conflict with the vendor's 
tar.

Michael 


On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Ettore Aldrovandi wrote:

| Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:20:06 -0400
| From: Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu>
| To: tex-live at tug.org
| Cc: Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>, miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu
| Subject: Re: [tex-live] TeXLive 2008 installation over the Internet breaks for
|      Solaris10 x86
| 
| 
| On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 14:28, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
| 
| >   On the other hand, Solaris comes with quite a lot of GNU software
| > nowadays (/usr/sfw contains free programs compiled by SunFreeWare);
| > it's
| > probably safe to assume that if there is a "gtar" in the PATH, it's
| > GNU
| > tar, and to use that one instead of "tar".
| 
| It is indeed true that gtar is installed (by default?) in Solaris 10 as
| /usr/sfw/bin/gtar, but whether tar or gtar will be picked depends on the
| relative positions of /bin and /usr/sfw/bin in PATH. It got me as well,
| when I first tried. I'd say it's better to work with the vendor supplied
| tar.
| 
| -- 
| Ettore Aldrovandi
| Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
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