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We are a free and open source project, and we are part of Oracle's developer program. We have access to the online developer packages. Solaris 11/64-bit Intel does not include libtool in its GNU gear:

$ find /usr/gnu -name libtool
$

I'm trying to install libtool. A simple pkgadd is failing:

$ sudo pkgadd libtool
pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </var/spool/pkg>

When I search for the tool it looks like there are about 23 choices (full result are shown below):

$ pkg search libtool | wc -l
    25

Thinking the PACKAGE field from search might be helpful, I tried:

$ sudo pkgadd libtool
pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </var/spool/pkg>
$ sudo pkgadd [email protected]
pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </var/spool/pkg>
$ sudo pkgadd /developer/build/[email protected]
pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </var/spool/pkg>
$ sudo pkgadd pkg:/developer/build/[email protected]
pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </var/spool/pkg>

The gap I am experiencing is How to Add Software Packages (pkgadd). The doc does not really explain what we should be doing, or I'm not quite getting it. For example, the Oracle docs don't tell me what pkgadd's device-name and pkgid are, and I don't know how to dial-in the results from pkg search.

I think the general problem is, how do I translate a PACKAGE returned from pkg search into a pkg-id used by pkgadd?

For this particular problem, which libtool is the one customarily found on GNU-based system and how do I install it?

$ pkg search libtool
INDEX                       ACTION VALUE                             PACKAGE
basename                    file   usr/apr/1.5/build/amd64/libtool   pkg:/library/[email protected]
basename                    file   usr/apr/1.5/build/libtool         pkg:/library/[email protected]
basename                    file   usr/apr/1.5/build/sparcv9/libtool pkg:/library/[email protected]
basename                    file   usr/apr/1.5/build/libtool         pkg:/library/[email protected]
basename                    file   usr/bin/amd64/libtool             pkg:/developer/build/[email protected]
basename                    file   usr/bin/libtool                   pkg:/developer/build/[email protected]
basename                    file   usr/bin/sparcv9/libtool           pkg:/developer/build/[email protected]
basename                    file   usr/bin/libtool                   pkg:/developer/build/[email protected]
basename                    file   usr/apr/1.3/build/amd64/libtool   pkg:/library/[email protected]
basename                    file   usr/apr/1.3/build/libtool         pkg:/library/[email protected]
basename                    file   usr/apr/1.3/build/sparcv9/libtool pkg:/library/[email protected]
basename                    file   usr/apr/1.3/build/libtool         pkg:/library/[email protected]
basename                    file   usr/lib/amd64/R/bin/libtool       pkg:/runtime/[email protected]
basename                    file   usr/lib/sparcv9/R/bin/libtool     pkg:/runtime/[email protected]
basename                    file   usr/lib/amd64/R/bin/libtool       pkg:/runtime/[email protected]
basename                    file   usr/lib/sparcv9/R/bin/libtool     pkg:/runtime/[email protected]
pkg.fmri                    set    solaris/developer/build/libtool   pkg:/developer/build/[email protected]
pkg.summary                 set    GNU libtool                       pkg:/developer/build/[email protected]
pkg.summary                 set    GNU libtool dlopen wrapper        pkg:/library/libtool/[email protected]
com.oracle.info.description set    GNU libtool                       pkg:/developer/build/[email protected]
com.oracle.info.description set    the GNU libtool dlopen wrapper    pkg:/library/libtool/[email protected]
com.oracle.info.name        set    libtool                           pkg:/developer/build/[email protected]
com.oracle.info.name        set    libtool                           pkg:/library/libtool/[email protected]
basename                    dir    usr/share/libtool                 pkg:/developer/build/[email protected]
  • That "How to Add Software Packages" link is from the Solaris 9 documentation set. For Solaris 11, you want to use the documentation found under http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=solaris11 instead. – alanc Nov 11 '16 at 03:39
  • Thanks @alanc - Please forgive my ignorance... How can you tell? Here's what the page looks like to me, and tere's no versioning information: https://postimg.org/image/80whfg7q5/. (I'd like to avoid the problems in the future). –  Nov 11 '16 at 04:39
  • The docs for newer releases have a banner across the top showing the version, as you can see on http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54739/pkginstall.html - but for the older releases like that, the only way I know to tell the version is to remove URL components to get to the top level of the library - for your example of https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/817-3814/6mjcp0qnh/index.html I found the Solaris library version at https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/ . – alanc Nov 14 '16 at 18:52

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Solaris 11 does not use pkgadd.

Try:

pkg install libtool

For reference man pkg on your system or Oracle docs for pkg.

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  • `pkgadd` is for the old SVR4 package system, and only used when installing a package built using it for Solaris 10 or older. `pkg` is used with the IPS package system that's the primary one in Solaris 11 and later. – alanc Nov 11 '16 at 03:38
  • For a general instruction on how to setup a Solaris 11 host with appropriate tools (e.g. libtool, GNU make, etc) for building C/C++ software, have a look at [this SO post](http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/72882/solaris-development-host/). – peterh Dec 11 '16 at 11:55