Egg head

Ok I’m a total Python newbie. I need to install flexget to use with my new transmission setup, it’s a python based app and comes as an .egg file. Seems the best way to install these is with something call easy_install. pkg search -l easy_install Shows easy_install is part of the python setup tools package. So just go ahead and install that. pfexec pkg install pkg:/library/python-2/setuptools-26 Then use easy_install to install the flexget along with all it’s dependencies. ...

8 Apr 2010 · 1 min · Alan Chalmers

Installing OpenSolaris on X2200 from USB drive

I recently aquired an X2200 with no optical drive, and having had a few questions from people about USB media for OpenSolaris , where my standard answer was to download the USB image, I decided it was time I should eat my own dog food as they say and take this USB stuff out for a test drive. What you will need: A USB key. I used an el cheap 1GB stick I had lying about.An OpenSolaris USB image I used build 127 from genunix. Of course you can role your own from the iso. Some way of getting the USB image on to the USB stick. For me this would be my existing OpenSolaris desktop machine.A x86 machine capable of booting from a USB device. I my case this was a SUN a dual CPU quad core X2200Assuming you have the USB stick and downloaded the image I won’t bore you with the details on why you can’t just copy the image to the stick. Just know you can’t. ...

29 Nov 2009 · 4 min · Alan Chalmers