Appendix B Installing a Patch on Solaris

This appendix describes how to install a patch on the Solaris Operating System.

Using the patchadd Command

You can download patches for Solaris from the following web site:

http://sunsolve.sun.com

To view a list of patches that are already installed on your operating system, open a terminal, and type patchadd -p.

To Install a Patch on Solaris

Steps

1. As root, create a temporary directory where you can unpack the compressed patch file.

   mkdir /tmp/patches

2. Copy the patch file to the temporary directory.

3. Unzip the file.

   unzip compressed_patch_file.zip.

4. Install the patch.

   patchadd patch_file

5. (Optional) Delete the temporary directory.

   rem -rf /tmp/patches