Installing IDR on solaris 11

Installing IDR on solaris 11 is different from Solaris 10 (patches). They called it idr (interim diagnostic relief) indentifier on Solaris 11

Following example, I am installing idr111 on Solaris 11 server

# pkgrepo create /var/tmp/idrrepo


# cd /var/tmp

# pkgrecv -s ./idr111p5p -d /var/tmp/idrrepo '*'

# pkg set-publisher -g file:///var/tmp/idrrepo solaris

# pkg publisher ( To verify that publisher is available)

solaris (non-sticky) origin online file:///var/tmp/idrrepo/


Install the idr using following command:

# pkg install idr111


Verify the package is installed by


# pkg verify -v idr111

PACKAGE STATUS

pkg://solaris/idr111 OK