Installation of the RHN applications cannot proceed unless the following utility and libraries are present:

The gzip utility is provided by the SUNWgzip package and may be downloaded from http://www.sunfreeware.com.

On recent versions of Solaris, the necessary libraries are provided by the following natively installed packages:

For older Solaris versions, the following required packages may be downloaded from http://www.sunfreeware.com:

To verify if a package is installed on the client, use the pkginfo command. For example, to check for a package that contains "zlib" in the name, run the following command:

# pkginfo | grep zlib