How do you get nano/pico running on OpenSolaris?

Question

We're setting up an OpenSolaris server on Amazon's EC2 service. However, vi/vim doesn't work properly, and pkg doesn't have nano/pico.

Is there any other text-editor maybe?

Answer 1

You may try copying the nano binaries (or compiling the source), to your user account and running it from there. It worked for me in a similar situation.

Answer 2

Have you looked at http://www.sunfreeware.com/?

Answer 3

Sounds like you may just need to set an appropriate termtype to get vi working. Look into the "TERM" environment variable options, perhaps one of those will help you.

Answer 4

SUN is working on the SUNWgnu-nano package to include this in the next release. In the meantime, you can compile the nano sources yourself. It worked for me. To compile, follow these steps:

1. Make sure you install SUNWgcc package so that gcc is installed.

2. Download the source package from the debian distribution. http://packages.debian.org/source/stable/nano

3. Unzip the package with 'gunzip xxxx.tar.gz' where xxxx.tar.gz is the source package you downloaded.

4. Untar the package with 'tar -xf xxxx' where xxxx is the unzipped source package.

5. Go to the source folder. Do a './configure' to create the make file for your system.

6. Type 'make' to create the binary
7. The 'nano' binary should be located in the src subfolder. Copy this to '/usr/bin'. And create a soft link for 'pico' to it i.e. 'ln -s /usr/bin/nano pico'

Test it out!

Answer 5

You can ask the OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 questions at https://www2.sun.de/dct/forms/reg_us_0505_351_0.jsp

Answer 6

1) Open the Package Manager (System > Administration > Package Manager) 2) Open the Repository settings (Settings > Manage Repositories) 3) Add the Blastwave repository (Name: blastwave, URL: http://blastwave.network.com:10000 ) 4) Select the repository in the upper right corner 5) Search for the package 'IPSnano' 6) Select the pacakge 7) Press 'Install/Update'

8) Modify your path to include /opt/csw/bin (For example $ vi ~/.profile and then add the line above to your path) 9) Logout and in again to reflect the changes

Check whether the correct version of nano is used: $ which nano

Answer 7

It looks like both Nano and Pico are available as auto-generated packages in the "pending" repository here: http://pkg.opensolaris.org/pending/en/index.shtml. I think they are waiting for someone to follow the verification steps and vouch that they work. Then they can be moved to the contrib repository. You can read more here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/sw-porters/.