Sun freeware site has amanda kit, at least Solaris 9, haven't
checked Solaris 8.

It doesn't put things in /usr/local/sbin though, /opt/fw/ tree is used.

I used it successfully when installing amanda client on Solaris x86.

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 04:29:58PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 10:09:18AM -0400, stan wrote:
> > We just had a vendr upgrade several systems, and now I hve Saprc boxes with
> > Solaris 2.8 on them. A quick check of the SunFreeware site doesn't seem to
> > show an Amanda package for these machines.
> > 
> > Can anyone point me to a Solaris 2.8 binary? I don't have compilers on
> > these boxes, and I'm reluctant to load GCC etall, just to compile this oen
> > package.
> > 
> 
> 
> On the Sun's BigAdmin site, there is an article from October
> describing the compiling and installing of amanda.  The version
> used in the article is 2.4.4.p1 but the instructions would be
> just as applicable to the current version.
> 
> Particularly interesting is the instructions for how to create
> a System V package for the client software so that could be
> a simple "pkgadd" operation.
> 
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/backups_amanda.html
> 
> 
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