Getting Started with IPS at OpenSolaris.org

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Image Packaging System Documentation

The Image Packaging System (IPS) software is developed by the Indiana and IPS OpenSolaris project teams and is a part of the OpenSolaris^TM 2008.05 release.

Click on the link below to download and install the OpenSolaris 2008.05 release.
Get the OpenSolaris 2008.05 Release

Read the Getting Started with OpenSolaris 2008.05 to learn how to install and use the latest features of OpenSolaris 2008.05.

Read the Getting Started with IPS Guide to learn how to use the Image Packaging System(IPS).

Read the Setting up Your Development Environment on OpenSolaris 2008.05 System to get started on developing applications with AMP, Java, Ruby, C, and C++ .

Developer Topics

If you are a developer with some knowledge of packaging in general and IPS in particular, and would like to skip the basics, the following topics might be of interest to you.

How to create and Publish an IPS Package
How to Create a Repository
How to Publish a SVR4 Package to the Repository
How to Get the Developer Tools
Using Sun Studio with OpenSolaris

SVR4 Packaging

The OpenSolaris 2008.05 release supports both SVR4 packages and IPS packages. To understand the SVR4 packaging model,read the Application Packaging Developer's Guide for detailed information on creating SVR4 packages.
The JDS CBE (Common Build Environment) can be used to build SVR4 packages. The JDS project page has more information on this, but there are many changes happening on that front, so stay tuned! Read the Comparison Table to view the differences between IPS commands and apt-get packaging commands.

Background Reading

The project team has been explaining some of the ongoing assumptions behind the project in a series of blog posts:

Go to: Indiana Documentation Hub