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Welcome to Skunkware for the SVR5 based UnixWare 7

The following Caldera Skunkware components have been packaged for installation on the SVR5 based SCO UnixWare 7 (codename "Gemini") utilizing the pkgadd facility.

To install one of these packages, run the command (as root) :

    # /usr/sbin/pkgadd -d <download-point>/<package-name>.pkg all
where <package-name> refers to the NAME in the first column below and <download-point> refers to the directory in which the pkg file(s) were downloaded.

The Caldera Skunkware UnixWare 7 archives include the following directories :

dist
A directory containing compressed tar archives of pre-compiled ready-to-install binary distributions. These can be installed as root by issuing the following commands:
    # cd /
    # gzcat /mnt/uw7/dist/foo.tar.gz | tar xvf -
admin
Contains the preview release of SCOadmin for Intranets
audio
A directory containing maplay and timidity, an MPEG audio player and MIDI to WAV converter/player
devtools
Contains pre-built ready-to-install versions of the EGCS GNU C Compiler, GNU binutils, GNU make and GNU gdb distributions
editors
Contains the xemacs, elvis and vim editors
fileutil
interp
libraries
Imli , gd , Mesa , Xaw3d 1.3
net
LLNL xdir 2.0, Squid Internet Object Cache 1.1.14, zircon 1.18.44, Count 2.3, Apache 1.2.4, freeWAIS-sf 2.2.10, Meta-HTML 5.04 and Mini-SQL 2.0, Lynx 2.7.1
shells
Contains popular UNIX command line interpreters like bash, zsh and tcsh.
shellutil
Contains both the UNIX and DOS bzip2 binary distributions
textproc
teTex and ghostscript
video
x11
x11/apps
AddressBook 0.6.2, AnswerGarden, xdiary, xinvest 2.5.1, xpaint 2.4.7, xquote 1.0.2, xrolodex, xwebster
x11/games
xpool 1.3
x11/graphics
povray, ImageMagick, gnuplot, gimp 0.99.10, transfig 3.2, xfig 3.2
x11/misc
Mathematical Recreations (256 pseudo-color display only), xfishtank 2.2
x11/savers
xgrab/xgrabsc
x11/viewers
mgdiff, mpegplay, xv, xanim, ghostview, xascii and xpdf
x11/winman
AfterStep, fvwm2, fvwm95, WindowMaker and enlightenment as well as some window manager and desktop configuration files i have created (DtwmAddInit.tar.gz, DtwmAddInit.sh, and WmAddInit.tar.gz - see the README there).
x11/xfree86
x11/utils
xmailbox
Packages
Many of the UnixWare 7 Skunkware packages have been prepared for installation using the pkgadd facility. These include the following :
bzip
"bzip2, bunzip2 - a block-sorting file compressor"
elvis
"a clone of the ex/vi text editor"
maplay
"MPEG Audio Player"
mathrec
"Mathematical Recreations" (Pseudo-Visual only)
mesa
"Mesa GL 3-D Graphics Libraries"
timidity
"MIDI to WAVE converter and player"
vim
"Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor"
xanim
"multiformat animation/video/audio viewer for X"
xdir
"An Advanced Graphical FTP Client"
xmix
"X Windows (Xaw) interface to Open Sound System Sound Driver Mixer"
xpdf
"Portable Document Format (PDF) file viewer for X"
xv
"Graphical file viewer & image manipulation for X" (shareware)
xwave
"Audio player, recorder, editor for the X Window System"
mail
archivemail, hypermail, procmail
built
gzip tar archives of precompiled distributions ready to install by running the command "make install" as root. These included :
  • Apache Web Server
  • GNU Binutils
  • Count access counter
  • Egcs, GNU C Compiler
  • Gdb, GNU debugger
  • Hypermail
  • GNU make
  • MetaHTML
  • Msql, Mini-SQL
  • Php/Fi
  • Squid, cacheing proxy server
java ACME Labs useful Java class library and applications.
emulators
rxvt 2.4.5terminal emulator compiled on UnixWare 7
sco
Miscellaneous shell scripts i find useful
db
AddressBook
Finally, all of the packages and binary distributions for SCO UnixWare 2.x seem to run just fine on the Gemini Beta release of SCO UnixWare 7 These are available in /skunkware/uw7/Packages (see the file uw7/CONTENTS).


Caldera International, The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. and Caldera Skunkware are not related to, affiliated with or licensed by the famous Lockheed Martin Skunk Works (R), the creator of the F-117 Stealth Fighter, SR-71, U-2, Venturestar(tm), Darkstar(tm), and other pioneering air and spacecraft.

Last Updated: Friday Jul 06, 2001 at 15:00:22 PDT