{"id":1036,"date":"2007-08-10T04:07:24","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T11:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coalface.mcslp.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2007-08-10T04:07:24","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T11:07:24","slug":"brian-is-having-the-same-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=1036","title":{"rendered":"Brian is having the same issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned the problem with setting up the stack on a new Solaris box <a href=\"http:\/\/coalface.mcslp.com\/?p=53\">yesterday<\/a> and then realized this morning that I&#8217;d already added Brian Aker&#8217;s blog posting on the same issues to my queue (<a href=\"http:\/\/krow.livejournal.com\/541082.html\">Solaris, HOW-TO, It works&#8230; Really&#8230;<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Brian mentions <code>pkg-get<\/code>, the download solution from <a href=\"http:\/\/blastware.org\">Blastwave<\/a> which I neglected to mention yesterday. It certainly makes the downloading and installation easier, but its&#8217;s far from comprehensive and some of the stuff is out of date. <\/p>\n<p>To be honest I find that I install the stuff from Sun Freeware to get me going, then spend time recompiling everything myself by hand, for the plain and simple reason that I then know it is up to date and\/or working or both. This is particularly the case for Perl, which often needs an update of the entire perl binary to get the updated versions of some CPAN modules. <\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, though, it sucks.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned the problem with setting up the stack on a new Solaris box yesterday and then realized this morning that I&#8217;d already added Brian Aker&#8217;s blog posting on the same issues to my queue (Solaris, HOW-TO, It works&#8230; Really&#8230;).<br \/>\nBrian mentions pkg-get, the download solution from Blastwave which I neglected to mention yesterday. It [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}