OpenCSW (Open Community SoftWare) is a free, volunteer effort, to provide quality downloadable binary packages for the supported versions of Sun Solaris. We provide them in the OS-native standard SVR4 package format. These packages are available to anyone who wishes to use them. We have been providing packages for Solaris since 2002 !
Our motto, is “to provide a straightforward, easy-to-use experience for the user”. To that end, several installation programs are available. You can use either pkg-get or pkgutil, both similar to apt/yum.
The beauty of these programs, is that they eliminate having to manually download a whole suite of packages and libraries, just to get the one piece of software you actually care about.
pkg-get install openoffice
or
pkgutil --install openoffice
This command will download, and install OpenOffice, plus all of its many required dependencies. Please see the pkg-get page or the pkgutil page for details on how to get started with it.
