[rescue] SGI freeware

[Rob Fielding]

Kurt Huhn wrote:

>Kevin <kevin at pipeline.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Is there a way to tell the software installer
>>(i am referring to the app that is spawned when you
>>choose"install" from the web site) to download and
>>install any necessary prerequisites it may need for the
>>packages i have selected?  I see the option to install
>>    
>>
>
>Nope.  You have to satisfy the dependencies yourself.   The best way,
>I've found, is to download all of the freeware packages, untar them into
>a temp dir, and install whatever software you need right from there. 
>Point Software Manager at the temp dir as the distribution directory,
>uncheck everything, then let the dependencies resolve themselves
>locally.
>  
>
Yup. And if you do that every time freeware gets updated, you might like 
my fw_prune.pl script ;)

http://freeware.sgi.com/contrib.html

http://reality.dsvr.net/irix/

Cheers,

Rob