[osol-discuss] firefox 3.5 for OpenSolaris, where can i get them?

[Alex Smith (K4RNT)]

You need to tar -xvf firefox-3.5.1.en-US.opensolaris-i386.tar before
you run pkgadd -d on it.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Louis de
Silva<louis.desilva at team.telstra.com> wrote:
> Downloaded a copy of 3.5.1 from http://opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/mozilla/development/. it was a bz2 format, ran the bunzip2 and it came back with a tar file. try to run  pkgadd -d firefox-3.5.1.en-US.opensolaris-i386.tar
> pkgadd: ERROR: attempt to process datastream failed
>    - bad format in datastream table-of-contents
>
> or when i ran
>
> can't seem to add pkgadd firefox-3.5.1.en-US.opensolaris-i386.tar
> pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </var/spool/pkg>
>
> what am i doing wrong?
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