Teamprise Explorer on Solaris requires the GTK 2 libraries to be installed. These libraries come standard on newer versions of Solaris, but older versions may require manual installation. You can download the source code to GTK 2 at gtk.org, and compile and install it yourself. Alternatively, Teamprise provides pre-built packages of GTK 2 for Solaris 8 SPARC that are easy to download and install.
The Teamprise Plug-in for Eclipse also requires the GTK libraries. However, Eclipse requires these libraries too, so no further installation or configuration of GTK is required if Eclipse already runs correctly on your computer.
The Teamprise package collection is distributed as a gzip-compressed tar file, which contains software packages that install GTK 2 and the libraries it depends on.
You can get the package collection (37 MB) from the following links:
Copy or move the package collection archive you downloaded to a temporary location, uncompress it using gunzip, then extract the contents using tar.
$ gunzip teamprise-gtk2-solaris8-sparc-1.0.0.tar.gz
$ tar xf teamprise-gtk2-solaris8-sparc-1.0.0.tar
$ cd teamprise-gtk2-solaris8-sparc-1.0.0
Now run the install.sh program as root to install the GTK 2 libraries and all required software. The installed software will use about 130 MB of disk space. All packages install to /opt/csw.
$ su
Password:
# ./install.sh
You may be prompted for confirmation during the installation of some packages. Answer y to at these prompts to allow installation to continue.
After the packages are installed, you may need to change your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to include the location of the new GTK libraries that were installed (the default location is /opt/csw/lib).
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/csw/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Now you are ready to run the Teamprise Explorer.
If you want to remove the GTK 2 libraries that were installed from the Teamprise package collection, simply run the uninstall.sh program included in the archive. You will be prompted to remove each package (answer y each time).
Other packages for Solaris (SPARC and Intel platforms) are available from the following sites, but these are not officially supported. The packages from SunFreeware.com have known issues with Exceed X displays, but otherwise work with Teamprise Explorer.