Command to download the package from internet in solaris

Question

Can any one suggest a command to download the package from the interent in the solaris box?

Thanks in advance.

I need to download the zip file from the internet to the solaris box using the terminal command — user2400564, Jul 24 '13 at 10:13

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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The wget command in Solaris 10 is somewhat hidden from sight.

You can find it here

/usr/sfw/bin/wget

This was checked on s10u10

Then use /usr/sfw/bin/wget <url>

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Jul 24 '13 at 10:17

Mythica

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 24 '13 at 10:17

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It's hard to tell as you provide few information but wget is a common tool to retrieve things from the Internet.

wget http://server/package.zip

If a Solaris package, pkgadd also supports URLs:

pkgadd -d http://server/package.pkg

answered Jul 24 '13 at 10:17

jlliagre

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 25 '18 at 12:21

I once needed to get wget installed on old remote Solaris 8 server (there is no /usr/sfw/ on Solaris 8).

So, after some web surfing, I did the following:

Downloaded wget-1.10.2-sol8-sparc-local.gz from http://download.nust.na/pub3/solaris/sparc/5.8/ to my Windows machine (where I always have 7-Zip installed)
Extracted wget-1.10.2-sol8-sparc-local.gz
Uploaded resulting package wget-1.10.2-sol8-sparc-local into Solaris server
Under root user executed pkgadd -d wget-1.10.2-sol8-sparc-local

Right away you can start using it as wget <URL>.

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