[OpenIndiana-discuss] What Do I Have To Install To Get A GUI ?

Hans J Albertsson hans.j.albertsson at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 15:07:57 UTC 2014


That was high on my too-embarrased-to-ask list.

Thanks!

Hans J. Albertsson
>From my Nexus 5
Den 22 jul 2014 16:48 skrev "Dave Miner" <dave.miner at oracle.com>:

> On 07/22/14 10:36, Ron Dawson wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Alan Coopersmith <
>> alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Things work much better if you use the GUI installer to install systems
>>> on
>>> which you want to run a GUI.   On Solaris 11, "pkg install
>>> solaris-desktop"
>>> would get you all the bits as well, but since OpenIndiana still uses the
>>> old names, the packages from the GUI install media are grouped under the
>>> more obscure name, "pkg install slim_install".
>>>
>>> I've been curious for a while where the group name slim_install came
>>>
>> from.  Is slim an acronym for something?
>>
>
> No, it was just a name we chose during OpenSolaris development to
> differentiate it from a more complete install that included all locales and
> some other things (that was known as "babel_install").  "slim" was a
> decidedly relative term :-)
>
> Dave
>
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