Use pkgsrc and pkgin utilities from SmartOS on OmniOS

Question

I am working with a virtual machine running 64 bit OmniOS install of solaris and would like to access packages in the joyent SmartOS package repository, I am trying to install pkgrsrc but have had not any luck. I have tried following these instructions: -http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/installing.html

Any ideas?

Answer 1

So as it turns out Jonathan Perkin provides an excellent solution to this problem at: http://www.perkin.org.uk/pages/pkgsrc-binary-packages-for-illumos.html

I had to run:

curl -s http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/bootstrap/bootstrap-2013Q3-x86_64.tar.gz | gzcat | (cd /; sudo tar -xpf -)

Then I added: PATH=/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:$PATH to my .bashrc file

It works great now!