Installing Development Desktop Builds

!!! These builds are not being updated right now. We're working on providing them again as soon as possible. !!!

Prerequisites

 The following packages are required. Please make sure they are installed before you proceed any further.

    SUNWmysql5
    SUNWuiu8
    SUNWurlgrabber
    SUNWvirtinst(x86 only

 If you're not sure whether you have these or not, you can run the following command to install them.

    $ pfexec pkg install SUNWmysql5 SUNWuiu8 SUNWurlgrabber SUNWvirtinst

Upgrade your system to the newest '/dev' build of OpenSolaris

 The development builds of the desktop are usually run on N-1 version of the OS, so you will often need to upgrade the base OS before installing the desktop components.

Set/Check your authority

 You can check what authorities your system will install packages from using 'pkg'.

    $ pkg authority
    PUBLISHER                             TYPE     STATUS   URI
    opensolaris.org                       origin   online   http://pkg.opensolaris.org:80/

 The above example shows what your authority list will look like after install. You will need to add the '/dev' repo, as your primary authority, like this:

    $ pfexec pkg set-authority -P -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev dev

 Now when you check your authority list you should see something like this.

    $ pkg authority
    PUBLISHER                             TYPE     STATUS   URI
    opensolaris.org                       origin   online   http://pkg.opensolaris.org:80/
    dev                      (preferred)  origin   online   http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/

Upgrade base OS

 You can now upgrade your base OS to the newest development version.

    $ pfexec pkg refresh
    $ pfexec pkg image-update

 Take a look at the OpenSolaris release notes if you run into problems. Depending on the version your going from and to, you may need to take some extra steps.
 After your image-update, you will need to reboot your system to activate the new release.

Upgrade the desktop

 You are now ready to install the desktop. Add the desktop IPS repo to your authority list and refresh.

    $ pfexec pkg set-authority -O http://jucr.opensolaris.org/vermillion vermillion
    $ pfexec pkg refresh

 Uninstall the 'entire' package.

    $ pfexec pkg uninstall entire

 For now, we're only publishing x86 builds. Sparc builds will be available soon. Install, say, build 111, x86.

    $ pfexec pkg install verm-b111-i386

 When the install is complete, you must reboot your system.
 You now have the development version of the desktop installed on your system.