[csw-users] Update Solaris 10

[Paul Gress]

Alessio Cervellin wrote:
> Manish Agrawal wrote:
>   
>> How do you update a Solaris 10 x86 machine to apply all security patches?
>>
>> Is there a command like "patch all" or something that will figure out which patched are needed and apply them?
>>     
>
> you have to download the "solaris 10 sun alert patch cluster" (or the 
> full patch cluster) from here:
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/patch-access
> you need a sunsolve account and a valid service plan linked to it.
> once downloaded, unzip it and you'll find an installer script which will 
> install all the patches.
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>   
If you looking for an automatic way:

/usr/sbin/smpatch update -L


A GUI way:

/usr/bin/updatemanager


And most users favorite way  is using PCA.  You need to download the script.

http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/





While all these way include some recommended patched, it will include 
all security.