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Upgrading OpenSolaris 2008.05 to OpenSolaris 2008.11

OpenSolaris 2008.11 has been made available and can be installed on a system using the image-update facility provided by the pkg(1) command.

General instructions for updating from the OpenSolaris 2008.05 release to the OpenSolaris 2008.11 release

1. Before using the image-update subcommand, it is required that the latest available version of the IPS software and install libraries be installed for your current boot environment (BE)

       $ BUILD=`uname -v | sed -e "s/snv_//" -e "s/[a-z]//"`
       $ pfexec pkg refresh
       $ pfexec pkg install entire@0.5.11-0.${BUILD}
       $ pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg@0.5.11-0.${BUILD}
       $ pfexec pkg install SUNWinstall-libs 
   

2. Use image-update directly as follows

       $ pfexec pkg image-update
   

   At this point, you can boot into the updated BE using reboot(1M) or init(1M) as usual.