Installing the Directory Server Packages

After installing the JRE, install the Directory Server packages, as described in Section 2, “Installing the Directory Server Packages”.

2. Installing the Directory Server Packages

There are two ways to install the Directory Server packages. The packages can be downloaded individually through Red Hat Network, or an ISO image can be downloaded and saved to a CD or DVD.

Section 2.1, “Installing Individual Packages”

Section 2.2, “Installing from an ISO Image”

2.1. Installing Individual Packages

The Directory Server software is packaged in Solaris PKG format and incorporates the Solaris pkgadd command. The latest Directory Server for Solaris packages are available through the Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 Solaris channel.

To install the Directory Server on Solaris, do the following:

1.Create a temporary installation directory for the downloaded packages, then open that directory.

mkdir /tmp/rhds80 cd /tmp/rhds80

2.Download the Directory Server packages from Red Hat Network. This can be done through a web browser by logging into Red Hat Network and selecting the Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 channel or it can be done using a tool such as curl or wget with information available on the Red Hat Network channel.

3.Install and update the Solaris packages using pkgadd.

for pkg in *.pkg ; do pkgadd -d $pkg all

done

If another application such as Red Hat Certificate System is already installed on the server, pkgadd detects the shared packages. Make sure that the pkgadd program replaces any existing versions with the packages included with Directory Server.

4.When the pkgadd program completes, move all *.pkg files from the current directory to a

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