Installation
pca doesn't need any complicated compilation,
installation or registration procedure, nor root permission.
It's just one perl script.
- You need perl to run pca. If you want to use
any of pca's download functions, you need wget
(≥v1.7). Both are included in recent versions of Solaris.
A wget binary with SSL/HTTPS support is required to download patches
and patch READMEs.
- Download the script:
and make it executable (chmod +x pca). Move it to a directory
in your PATH.
Alternatively, pca is available as an SVR4 compliant package from
Blastwave
(maintained by D. Clarke), from
OpenCSW
(CSWpca,
maintained by D. Michelsen) and on
Sunfreeware
(maintained by S. Christensen).
- To download patches or patch READMEs
from Sun, a Sun Online Account (SOA) is required.
If you don't have one yet,
get a free SOA and use the askauth or the user and
passwd options to feed the SOA data to pca. A free SOA will
grant access to security and driver patches only.
To access all patches, you need to buy a
Sun Service Plan
and connect it to your SOA.
- Run it: pca. There is no need to run pca as root
for basic usage.
- Documentation and release notes are included in the script; view it with
pca --man. If you prefer
documentation in man page format, get pca.8 and
move it to a directory in your MANPATH.
If you are forced to use a proxy for web access, make sure that
wget is configured to use it: Set http_proxy in /etc/wgetrc
or $HOME/.wgetrc or use the wgetproxy option with pca.
If you do not have wget installed on your system, download the
current patch cross-reference file
patchdiag.xref and move it to /var/tmp/ before running pca.
Previous versions of pca are available for download in the
download area.
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