cannot install openssh on solaris 8(intel)

[hilophilo]

i downloaded opennssh and uunzipped it. when i try to "./configure" like what README says. it says: it didnt find gcc. compiler cannot created executables. i installed the gcc from the solaris cd but no luck. what im i doing wrong?

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

I haven't tried doing this myself, but maybe you need to find the path to gcc. It might be looking for it in /usr/bin/gcc, and you might have it in /usr/local/bin/gcc.

I would find out where it's located, and then type ./configure --help. Once you do that, look through all of the options. There should be a way to specify the path to gcc.

[Slackmonster]

I think that Alex is on the right track here. As I said in worldtouch's post, here is what I do:

- In normal user account I do a "which gcc" or "which cc" (which ever I am looking for)
- If found I then echo $PATH
- su to root
- PATH=<copy/paste output from echo above>
- export PATH
- verify success by trying the "which" command again.

If which now finds cc or gcc then you can truck on. If not, post back with your new output. Good luck.

[javierm]

I just tried solaris 9 at work on a sparc system. ssh is already installed out of the box.

[xulfralos]

Just get the latest package from sunfreeware.com and pkgadd that biatch...

ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/intel/8/openssh-3.4p1-sol8-intel-local.gz

BTW, you'll have to gunzip it first, then pkgadd it.

The entire install process is described at:
http://sunfreeware.com/

[bongo]

Hey, good luck installing openssh. I can tell you that I tried to install it a twice before I figured out that I hadn't installed a compiler (duh)... the error message from the openssh installer wasn't very explicit about system administration errors on my end. Also, what I remember being kind of tough was making sure that I had the appropriate patch for my OS. Good luck.