Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 - CHANNEL MANAGEMENT, Reference Manual

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4. Configure the client applications to connect to the RHN Satellite.
Once finished, your systems will be ready to begin receiving RHN updates. The following three section
explain these steps in detail.
12.3.1. Download and Install Additional Packages
This section steps you through the process of downloading and installing third-party applications and
the RHN applications from the Satellite onto the UNIX client.
Of primary importance is the
Red Hat Update Agent for UNIX
(
up2date
), which provides the link
between your client systems and Red Hat Network. The UNIX-specific version of the
Red Hat Update
Agent
is limited in functionality compared to its Linux counterpart but still enables system registration
and facilitates package installs and patches. Refer to
Section 12.4, “Registration and Updates”
for a
full description of the tool's options.
Note
It may be useful to enter the command
bash
when first logging into the Solaris client. If
the BASH shell is available, it will make the system's behavior as Linux-like as possible.
12.3.1.1. Install Third-Party Packages
Installation of the RHN applications cannot proceed unless the following utility and libraries are
present:
•
gzip
•
libgcc
•
openssl
•
zlib
The
gzip
utility is provided by the SUNWgzip package and may be downloaded from
http://
www.sunfreeware.com
.
On recent versions of Solaris, the necessary libraries are provided by the following natively installed
packages:
•
SUNWgccruntime
•
SUNWopenssl*
•
SUNWzlib
For older Solaris versions, the following required packages may be downloaded from
http://
www.sunfreeware.com
:
•
SMClibgcc
or
SMCgcc
•
SMCossl
•
SMCzlib