End of Feature Notices for Oracle Solaris 11

consolekit

Framework for managing desktop login sessions.

csh

csh will be removed from a future release of Oracle Solaris. The default /usr/bin/csh mediator value will be changed to tcsh in a future release of Oracle Solaris.

Django 2.2

Version 2.2 of the Django Python Web framework. Migrate to Django 3.2 or newer as provided with Oracle Solaris. Use the django-version mediator to select version 3.2 or newer.

GCC 12

Version 12 of the GNU Compiler Collection will be removed from a future release of Oracle Solaris. Migrate to GCC 13 or newer as provided with Oracle Solaris.
GCC Go runtime library libgo.so.21 will also been removed. Binaries which were built using gccgo 12 will need to be rebuilt with a newer gccgo version.

gdk-pixbuf-xlib

gdk-pixbuf-xlib library will be removed from a future version of Oracle Solaris.

gnome-themes-standard

gnome-themes-standard will be removed from a future release of Oracle Solaris.

gtk-vnc

gtk-vnc library will be removed from a future version of Oracle Solaris. Migrate to TigerVNC vncviewer package for VNC client support instead.

IKEv1

Internet Key Exchange Version 1 (IKEv1) will be removed from a future release of Oracle Solaris. Systems using IKE should migrate to IKEv2.

imake

Imake will be removed from a future release of Oracle Solaris.

intltool

Intltool will be removed from a future release of Oracle Solaris. Software that uses it should be updated to use GNU gettext directly instead.

IPQoS

IPQoS will be removed from a future release of Oracle Solaris. Use features like Network Flows and Edge Virtual Bridging to achieve similar controls.

libgdata

libgdata will be removed from a future version of Oracle Solaris.

libneon

libneon will be removed from a future version of Oracle Solaris. Thosr who still need code class="ocode">libneon can download the source from https://notroj.github.io/neon/

libpng 1.0
libpng 1.2

Versions 1.0 and 1.2 of the Portable Network Graphics library. Migrate to libpng 1.4 or newer as provided with Oracle Solaris.

librest

librest will be removed from a future version of Oracle Solaris.

libsoup 2.x

libsoup 2.x will be removed from a future version of Oracle Solaris. Migrate to libsoup 3.x or newer as provided by Oracle Solaris.

mozjs78 (SpiderMonkey78)

mozjs78 (SpiderMonkey78) will be removed from a future version of Oracle Solaris. Migrate to mozjs115 (Spidermonkey115) or newer as provided by Oracle Solaris.

PCRE libpcre

The previous version of the Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library, libpcre, will be removed in a future release of Oracle Solaris. Software using libpcre should migrate to the current version, PCRE 10.x, also known as libpcre2.

PHP 8.1

Versions 8.1 of the PHP scripting language will be removed from a future release of Oracle Solaris. Migrate to PHP 8.2 or a newer version of PHP as provided with Oracle Solaris.

pkcs11_kms(7) (Oracle Key Manager)

Support for Oracle Key Manager via pkcs11_kms(7) will be removed from a future release of Oracle Solaris. Systems should migrate to a key management system using the OASIS KMIP standard as provided by pkcs11_kmip(7), such as Oracle Key Vault (OKV).

Puppet-Staging Module

Migrate to the Puppet-Archive Module as provided with Oracle Solaris.

Python 3.9

Versions 3.9 of the Python interpreter and modules. Migrate to Python 3.11 or newer as provided with Oracle Solaris.

Python Chardet

Chardet will be removed from a future release of Oracle Solaris. Migrate to charset-normalizer as provided with Oracle Solaris.

Python Colorama

Colorama will be removed from a future release of Oracle Solaris.

Python Fasteners

Fasteners will be removed from a future release of Oracle Solaris. Most of the functionality can be replaced with the locking from standard library or with the filelock library, which are delivered with Oracle Solaris.

Python Tomli

Tomli will be removed from a future release of Oracle Solaris. Migrate to standard tomllib as provided with Oracle Solaris.

uhttpmock

uhttpmock will be removed from a future version of Oracle Solaris.

Apache Tomcat 8.5

Version 8.5 of the Apache Tomcat application server has been removed from Oracle Solaris. Migrate to a later version as provided with Oracle Solaris.

audiocs (4D)

Crystal Semiconductor 4231 audio driver.

conflict

conflict has been removed from Oracle Solaris. Those who still need conflict can download and build the source from invisible-island.net/conflict/conflict.html

CVS

CVS has been removed from Oracle Solaris. Those who still need CVS can download and build the source from ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/

Device Driver Utility

Device Driver Utility tool for creating device drivers.

NVIDIA R340
NVIDIA R304

WiFi Device Drivers

The following wireless network device drivers:

arn(4D)            rum(4D)

    atu(4D)            uath(4D)
    iwh(4D)            ural(4D)
    iwk(4D)            urtw(4D)
    iwp(4D)            zyd(4D)

aalib

The ASCII art library, aalib.

ANTLR

ANother Tool for Language Recognition. If needed, install directly using the instructions at Getting Started with ANTLR v4.

Apache Commons Collections

Interfaces, implementations, and utilities for Java Collections, including apache-commons-logging .

APR 1.5

Version 1.5 of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) and APR-util. Migrate to version 1.6 instead.

Automake 1.10
Automake 1.11
Automake 1.15

Versions 1.10, 1.11, and 1.15 of the automake Makefile generating tool. Migrate to a newer version of automake as provided with Oracle Solaris.

Caribou

On-screen keyboard support for GNOME is now provided by GNOME Shell instead.

Cloog

CLooG is an open source library which implements Z-Polyhedra scanning.

Clutter libraries

Users can download the source from gnome.org.

cx_Oracle and ODPI-C

cx_Oracle and ODPI-C libraries. Migrate to python-oracledb library. cx_Oracle was rewritten and renamed to python-oracledb. The way it is built also changed, which is why ODPI-C has been removed as well.

Django 1.11

Version 1.11 of the Django Python Web framework. Migrate to Django 3.2 or newer as provided with Oracle Solaris. Use the django-version mediator to select version 3.2 or newer.

Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI)

The DRI subsystem, the i915 kernel driver for Intel graphics, and associated modules for the Xorg server and Mesa library.

Users of Intel graphics from the 910 chipset through, and including, the Intel Core 4th Generation ("Haswell") CPU will need to use the Xorg VESA driver and Mesa swrast driver instead. If the system has not had manual configuration applied, this change will happen automatically. If an Xorg configuration file exists, then it might need to be edited to remove the usage of the intel or modesetting drivers for Xorg, because both of these drivers rely on the i915 kernel drivers.

Users of other graphics devices will not be affected.

DMX

Distributed Multihead X (DMX) software includes the Xdmx server and associated utilties and libraries.

enscript

The enscript command converts ASCII files to PostScript or other output languages. Use the a2ps command instead.

Federated File Systems - FedFS

NFS support for the Federated File Systems protocols (RFC 7532 and RFC 7533), including administrative commands has been removed. Support will remain for RFC 6641 and for referrals of type "nfs-basic".

Folks, (libfolks)

The Folks library (libfolks) has been from Oracle Solaris. Users can download the source from gnome.org.

Foomatic Print PPDs

The package pkg:/print/lp/filter/foomatic-ppds was part of SVr4 printing which was already removed. Please use pkg:/print/cups/filter/foomatic-db and pkg:/print/cups/filter/foomatic-db-engine compiled for CUPS instead.

Frame Buffer Power Management (FBPM)

FBPM support has been removed from the x11-protocols headers, the libXext library, and the xset command in Oracle Solaris.

freetype-config

Utility for obtaining flags needed to build software using the FreeType library. Instead, use pkg-config freetype2.

fstobdf utility

Those who need fstobdf can download and build the source from X.Org.

g11nsvc

The g11nsvc Locale Services Python library. Instead, use the nlsadm command or parse the locale_description files and pkg outputs directly. See the nlsadm (8), locale_description (5), and pkg (1) man pages.

GCC 5
GCC 7
GCC 9
GCC 10
GCC 11

Version 5, 7, 9, 10, and 11 of the GNU Compiler Collection. Migrate to GCC 13 or newer as provided with Oracle Solaris.
GCC Go runtime library libgo.so.14 and libgo.so.16 has also been removed. Binaries which were built using gccgo 9, 10, 11, and 12 will need to be rebuilt with a newer gccgo version.

gmime 2.x

Migrate to 3.x as provided with Oracle Solaris.

gnome-common

gnome-common has been removed from Oracle Solaris.

GNOME 2.0 Configuration - GConf

GConf (GNOME 2.0 Configuration). Use GNOME 3.x replacement GSettings and dconf.

gnome-doc-utils

Tools for building GNOME 2 documentation. Use yelp-tools to build GNOME 3 style docs instead.

gnu-gs-fonts-std and gnu-gs-fonts-other

gnu-gs-fonts-std and gnu-gs-fonts-other.

GNU parted, NTFS utilities

GNU parted and NTFS utilities.

GOCR

GOCR (GNU Optical Character Recognition) program.

Google Go 1.7

Version 1.7 of the Go programming language. Migrate to the GNU Go compiler (gccgo ) as provided in Oracle Solaris for both x86 and SPARC. Rebuild your Go applications using the go build command provided by gccgo . Additional packages not provided by Oracle Solaris can be downloaded by using the go get tool.

GTK+ 2 and gtkmm

Version 2 of the GTK+ and gtkmm libraries has been removed from Oracle Solaris. Migrate to version 3 or 4 as provided with Oracle Solaris.

gtkspell

The gtkspell library.

GSSDP, GUPnP, GUPnP-igd

GSSDP, GUPnP, and GUPnP-igd.

HTTP and HTTPS support for SVR4 tools

Removed support for the HTTP and HTTPS protocol for installing SVR4 packages.

httping

Tool for measuring the latency and throughput of a webserver.

hal-cups-utils

hal-cups-utils is a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) plugin module that automatically creates print queues under the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) for printers detected by HAL.

ICU 59.1

Version 59.1 of the International Components for Unicode libraries. Migrate to ICU version 63.1 or newer as provided with Oracle Solaris.

idnkit2

The idnkit2 library. Use the libidn2 library instead.

IPFilter to PF conversion tool

The ipf2pf(7) tool and smf service has been removed from Oracle Solaris.

Irssi

Irssi has been removed from Oracle Solaris. Those who still need Irssi can download and build the source from irssi.org.

lcms

Little Color Management System. Use lcms2 instead.

libchamplain

libchamplain library has been removed from Oracle Solaris.

libConfuse

libConfuse library has been removed from Oracle Solaris.

libcroco library

The libcroco library has been removed from Oracle Solaris. Those who still need libcroco can download and build the source from gnome.org.

libee

libee library has been removed from Oracle Solaris.

libmng

The MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics) library.

libmusicbrainz library

The libmusicbrainz library.

librsync

Implements the rsync remote-delta algorithm. This library is used only by rdiff-backup .

libsass and sassc

The libsass library and the sassc wrapper.

libtorrent and rtorrent

libtorrent library and rtorrent client has been removed from Oracle Solaris.

libusb 0.1.8

Migrate to libusb 1.0.x in the libusb-1 package.

libvisual

The libvisual library and libvisual-plugins packages has been removed from Oracle Solaris.

libXevie library

The libXevie library has been removed from Oracle Solaris. Those who still need libXevie can download and build the source from X.Org.

libXklavier library

The libXklavier library.

libXp library

Those who still need libXp can download and build the source from X.Org.

libXxf86misc library

The libXxf86misc library has been removed from Oracle Solaris. Those who still need libXxf86misc can download and build the source from X.Org.

libzapojit

Libzapojit is a GLib/GObject wrapper for the SkyDrive and Hotmail REST APIs.

Mailman

Mailman software manages electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists.

MCollective

MCollective is deprecated by the Puppet community. For suggestions of alternative software, see the deprecation note on puppet.com.

mod_fcgid

Migrate to Apache HTTP module mod_proxy_fcgi instead.

MySQL 5.5
MySQL 5.6
MySQL 5.7

Version 5.5, 5.6, and 5.7 of the MySQL database. Migrate to a newer version of MySQL as provided with Oracle Solaris.

Nautilus-sendto

Users should attach files directly in their email client instead.

Node.js 8
Node.js 10
Node.js 12
Node.js 14
Node.js 16
Node.js 18

Versions 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, and 18 of the Node.js JavaScript runtime. Migrate to a newer version as provided with Oracle Solaris.

ocaml

OCaml programming language.

OpenEXR
Ilmbase libraries

OpenEXR image file format and supporting Ilmbase libraries.

OpenJade and OpenSP

Users can download sources from openjade.sourceforge.net.

OpenSSL 1.0.2 and 1.1

Versions 1.0.2 and 1.1 of OpenSSL library. Migrate to version OpenSSL 3.x as provided with Oracle Solaris 11.4.42 and later.

OpenUSB library

Migrate to libusb 1.0.23 or newer as provided in libusb-1 package with Oracle Solaris.

Perl 5.22
Perl 5.26
Perl 5.32
Perl 5.36

Versions 5.22, 5.26, 5.32 and 5.36 of Perl, including all components in packages that have a -522, -526, -532, or -536 suffix in their package name. Migrate to a newer version as provided with Oracle Solaris.

Perl Modules Tools (pmtools)

Perl Modules Tools (pmtools) is a suite of small tools that help manage and inspect Perl modules, Perl Plain Old Documentation files, and Perl programs.

PHP 8.0
PHP 7.4
PHP 7.3
PHP 7.1
PHP 5.6

Versions 8.0, 7.4, 7.3, 7.1 and 5.6 of the PHP scripting language. Migrate to PHP 8.2 or a newer version of PHP as provided with Oracle Solaris.

pidgin
pidgin-otr
libotr
pidgin-gnome-keyring

pidgin, pidgin-otr, libotr, and pidgin-gnome-keyring.

Puppet master

The WEBrick/Ruby-based Puppet master is deprecated by the Puppet community and hence removed from Oracle Solaris.

pygtk

Python 2 binding to GTK 2. Use pygobject bindings to GTK 3 instead.

Python 2.7

Version 2.7 of the Python interpreter and modules. Migrate to Python 3.9 or newer as provided with Oracle Solaris.

Python 3.4
Python 3.5
Python 3.7

Versions 3.4, 3.5, and 3.7 of the Python interpreter and modules. Migrate to Python 3.11 or newer as provided with Oracle Solaris.

Python asn1crypto library

Oracle Solaris provides pyasn1 and pyasn1-modules packages, and the cryptography library. These provide most/all of the functionality available in asn1crypto.

Python atomicwrites

Python atomicwrites library. Migrate to standard os.replace and os.rename libraries.

Python bindings

The following Python bindings have been removed:

libxsl-27           net-snmp-27

Python Boto

Python Boto library.

Python components

All versions of the following Python components. Users can still install these programs directly by using the pip command, which is shipped with each Python runtime.

aioeventlet         os-client-config

    amqp                oslo.concurrency
    anyjson             oslo.messaging
    appdirs             oslo.middleware
    cachetools          oslo.service
    ceilometerclient    osprofiler
    cheetah             pathlib
    cliff               pika
    contextlib2         pika-pool
    d2to1               positional
    decorator           posix_ipc
    django-appconf      pycadf
    eventlet            pydns
    filechunkio         pyrabbit
    futures             pyscss
    futurist            pysmi
    greenlet            pysnmp
    httplib2            pytest-capturelog
    iniparse            pytest-codecheckers
    ipython             python-editor
    jsonpatch           python-mimeparse
    jsonpath-rw         quantumclient
    jsonpointer         rcssmin
    keystoneauth1       repoze.lru
    keystoneclient      requestsexceptions
    keystonemiddleware  retrying
    kombu               rjsmin
    lesscpy             routes
    librabbitmq         scp
    logutils            simplegeneric
    m2crypto            singledispatch
    markdown            swift
    networkx            swiftclient
    neutronclient       tempita
    nose-cover3         trollius
    openstack-common    unicodecsv
    openstacksdk        warlock

Python components

All versions of the following Python components. Users can still install these programs directly by using the pip command, which is shipped with each Python runtime.

cov-core            requests-aws

    cssutils            testresources
    ipaddr              testscenarios
    ldtp                traceback2
    linecache2          twisted-web2

Python components

All versions of the following Python components. Users can still install these programs directly by using the pip command, which is shipped with each Python runtime.

dogpile.cache       pyflakes

    dogpile.core        pymemcache
    formencode          pytest-cov
    ldappool            setuptools-git
    logilab-common      sqlalchemy
    paste               tox
    paste.deploy        waitress
    pycountry           webtest

Python extras

Python extras library.

Python lazy-object-proxy library

Users can move to wrapt, which is another transparent object proxy for Python that is available in Oracle Solaris, although it works slightly differently.

Python lockfile library

Users should migrate to other similar locking libraries as provided in Oracle Solaris, such as filelock or fasteners (depending on the use case).

Python memcached

Python memcached library. Migrate to pymemcached library.

Python py

Python py.

Python six library

Users should remove all uses of six and replace them with corresponding functionality from the standard library.

Python toml

Python toml library. Migrate to tomlkit, toml, or standard tomllib (starting with Python 3.11).

pywbem

Python library for making CIM operations over HTTP using the WBEM CIM-XML protocol.

rdiff-backup

Back up one directory to another, possibly over a network. Instead, use the rsync command.

RRDTool

Data logging and graphing tool. Use Oracle Solaris System Web Interface instead. See Using Oracle Solaris 11.4 StatsStore and System Web Interface for more information.

Ruby 2.1
Ruby 2.3
Ruby 2.5
Ruby 2.6
Ruby 3.1

Versions 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, and 3.1 of the Ruby interpreter and modules. Migrate to a newer version of Ruby as provided with Oracle Solaris.

Snort and DAQ

Snort and DAQ will has been removed from Oracle Solaris. Users can use Suricata for similar functionality.

SpiderMonkey 60
SpiderMonkey 38

SpiderMonkey version 60 (libmozjs-60) and SpiderMonkey version 38 (libmozjs-38). Migrate to SpiderMonkey version 78 or newer as provided with Oracle Solaris.

Stomp Library

Stomp Library for Ruby. Users who want to continue to use this in Oracle Solaris should install this as a 'ruby gem':

# gem install stomp

telepathy-glib

Users can download the source from telepathy.freedesktop.org.

telepathy-logger

Daemon that centralizes the logging of all communication within the Telepathy framework.

vino and vinagre

The GNOME vino and vinagre packages have been removed from Oracle Solaris. Users can use the TigerVNC server and client packages for VNC support instead.

WPA supplicant

Wireless networking WPA supplicant is the wpad(8) daemon that provides WiFi Protected Access (WPA) 1 and 2 functionality as defined by IEEE 802.11i.

xf86-video-cirrus and xf86-video-openchrome drivers

x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video-openchrome and x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video-cirrus drivers have been removed from Oracle Solaris.

wxWidgets 3.0

Migrate to wxWidgets 3.2 version as provided with Oracle Solaris 11.4.57 and later.

xscreensaver

Screen saver collection and screen lock framework. Migrate to GNOME Screen Shield. Users can also manually run xlock , or build xscreensaver sources from https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/ .

Yasm

Migrate to the Netwide Assembler (NASM) as provided with Oracle Solaris.

yelp, devhelp, and webkitgtk4

yelp, devhelp, and webkitgtk4 packages have been removed from Oracle Solaris. Use online documentation at http://help.gnome.org instead for detailed documentation.

Zenmap & Ndiff

Zenmap is the official Nmap Security Scanner GUI and the Ndiff tool aids in the comparison of Nmap scans.

addbadsec

Used to manually map out defective disk blocks. Disk firmware handles this task automatically now.

appcert

Used to check the conformance of an application to the Oracle Solaris Application Binary Interface (ABI). Instead, you can use the Preflight Application Checker tool for Oracle Solaris.

asa

Used to convert FORTRAN carriage-control output to printable form.

bfs

Used to scan "big" files (up to 1 megabyte) on systems without enough memory to handle directly. Instead, you can use the ed command.

dispswitch

Used to switch display configuration when a laptop-specific hotkey is pressed. Instead, use the xrandr command or GNOME Display Settings application to change display configuration.

dpost, eqnchar , mansun

The roff family of commands has been replaced with the groff system. In the groff system, the dpost command is no longer used. Instead, you can use the grops command. The eqnchar file is no longer required, so there is no replacement. The mansun macro is no longer used. Instead, you can use the man macro.

dumpcs

Displays the codeset table for the current locale. Instead, use the /usr/pub/utf-8 text file to display the printable characters on UTF-8 locales. On EUC locales, save the output from the dumpcs command on a prior Oracle Solaris update and use it for future reference.

fruadm

Used to print or set the customer data for Field-Replaceable Units (FRUs). You can still run this command from the Service Processor.

fsexam

Used to convert the name of a file, or the contents of a plain text file, from a legacy character encoding to UTF-8 encoding. Instead, you can use the fsexamc command.

getfacl

Used to display discretionary file information. Instead, you can use the -v or -V options to the ls command to list the Access Control Lists (ACLs).

gettable

Used to obtain an RFC 952 host table from an RFC 953 server. Instead, use DNS.

htable

Used to convert an RFC 952 host table into host, network, and gateway files. Instead, use DNS.

in.dhcpd

The Sun DHCP daemon (in.dhcpd ) is no longer available. If you require a DHCP server, use the ISC DHCP server. To install the ISC DHCP server, install the service/network/dhcp/isc-dhcp package.

in.rdisc

Network router discovery daemon. The in.rdisc daemon is obsolete as of Oracle Solaris 9 Update 1. Instead, you can use the in.routed daemon that delivers the underlying RFC 1259 router discovery functionality.

installgrub

Used to install legacy GRUB on a disk partition or a floppy diskette.

ITU Construction Utilities

The ITU utilities enable you to boot Oracle Solaris with updates during installation.

The following commands are no longer available:

      
    /usr/bin/itu
    /usr/bin/mkbootmedia
    /usr/bin/pkg2du
    /usr/bin/updatemedia
    
     
    

To provide similar functionality by using the Image Packaging System (IPS), see Packaging and Delivering Software With the Image Packaging System in Oracle® Solaris 11.4 and Creating a Custom Oracle® Solaris 11.4 Image.

js2ai

Used to convert Oracle Solaris 10 JumpStart rules , profile, and syscfg configuration files to a format compatible with Oracle Solaris 11 Automated Installer (AI).

machid

The following machid family of commands is no longer available:

      
    /usr/bin/i386
    /usr/bin/i486
    /usr/bin/i386pc
    /usr/bin/sun
    /usr/bin/sparc
    /usr/bin/sun4m
    
     
    

These commands return a true value (exit code of 0) if you are using an instruction set that the command name indicates. Instead, use the uname command. For more information, see the uname (1) man page.

mailcompat

Used to provide SunOS 4.x compatibility for the Oracle Solaris mailbox format.

makekey

Used to generate an encryption key. Instead, you can use the pwhash command to generate password hashes, which gives you access to newer and more secure hash algorithms.

mp

mp is a command-line print filter that accepts text as input and prints PostScript as output. Instead, you can use the paps print filter.

netservices

Used to enable or disable network services. The default security posture in Oracle Solaris 11 is equivalent to or stronger than running the netservices limited command. Administrators concerned with the security posture of the system should use the Compliance Framework. You can use the svcadm command to enable or disable individual services, or create an SMF profile appropriate for your site.

optisa

Used to determine which variant instruction set is optimal to use. Instead, use the isainfo command to query the capabilities of the current instruction set architecture.

packagemanager

The packagemanager GUI command and its associated pm-updatemanager command are no longer available. Instead, use the pkg command, which provides all the package management capabilities.

pack , unpack , and pcat

Compression utilities. Use gunzip or gzcat to decompress existing files that were compressed with pack .

prtfru

Used to gather FRUID data from the system or domain. You can still run prtfru from the Service Processor.

setfacl

Used to modify the Access Control List (ACL) for a file or files. Instead, you can use the chmod -A command to set POSIX or NFS ACLs.

srchtxt

Used to search localized message files created by the mkmsgs utility. Instead, use the message file format created by the msgfmt utility.

SunSSH

The SunSSH implementation of the secure shell server and clients is no longer available. Instead, you can use the OpenSSH implementation of these commands, which is included in Oracle Solaris 11.3 and later.

symorder

Used in SunOS 4.x to reduce the overhead of getting symbols from vmunix . Instead, see the ksyms (4D) man page for information about accessing the kernel symbols.

/usr/ucb commands

The following commands in the /usr/ucb directory are no longer available. Other /usr/ucb commands are still available in Oracle Solaris 11.4 by installing the package compatibility/ucb , but might be removed in a future update. Instead, migrate to the equivalent commands in /usr/bin , /usr/xpg7/bin , or /usr/gnu/bin .

      
    basename
    biff
    df
    du
    e, ex
    expr
    file
    from
    ls
    mkstr
    printenv
    rcp
    rdate
    renice
    rlogin
    rsh
    ruptime
    rwho
    sum
    test
    touch
    tr
    vi, view
    vipw
    whereis
    
     
    

/usr/sunos/bin/vi

The legacy /usr/sunos/bin/vi editor is no longer available. Instead, you can use the vim editor, which is installed as /usr/bin/vi . The following links to /usr/sunos/bin/vi are also removed:

      
    /usr/sunos/bin/edit
    /usr/sunos/bin/ex
    /usr/sunos/bin/vedit
    /usr/sunos/bin/view
    /usr/bin/edit
    /usr/bin/vedit
    
     
    

The POSIX versions of vi and ex present in the /usr/xpg4 and the /usr/xpg6 directories will not be removed. The following links are not required for POSIX compliance and have been removed:

      
    /usr/xpg4/bin/edit
    /usr/xpg4/bin/vedit
    /usr/xpg4/bin/view
    /usr/xpg6/bin/edit
    /usr/xpg6/bin/vedit
    /usr/xpg6/bin/view
    
     
    

AGP Bus

Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) drivers. With the obsolescence of the AGP Bus, frame buffer hardware that uses the AGP bus no longer functions. PCI-based frame buffers continues to function and can be used in place of the AGP hardware.

acecad

Input device driver for Acecad Flair graphics tablets

adpu320

Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI host bus adapter driver

afe

ADMtek Ethernet NIC driver

amd8111s

AMD-8111 Ethernet NIC driver

arcmsr (4D)

Areca SAS/SATA RAID HBA driver

atge

Atheros/Attansic Ethernet NIC driver

ath

Atheros AR52xx 802.11b/g wireless NIC driver

av1394

IEEE 1394 audio/video driver

bcm_sata

Broadcom HT1000 SATA controller driver

bfe

Broadcom BCM4401 Ethernet NIC driver

bscbus

Blade support chip interface driver

bscv

Blade support chip interface driver

chxge

Chelsio Ethernet NIC driver

dca

Broadcom Crypto Accelerator device driver. For hardware-based cryptography acceleration, you can use any of the SPARC T4 or later, SPARC M5 or later, or SPARC S7 systems, or Intel CPUs with AES-NI support. If you need a hardware based keystore, you can use the Crypto Accelerator 6000 board.

dcam1394

IEEE 1394-based digital camera (IIDC) driver

dmfe

Davicom DM9102A Ethernet NIC driver

dnet

DEC 21040, 21041, and 21140 Ethernet NIC driver

efb

Sun XVR-50, XVR-100, and XVR-300 framebuffer driver

elxl

3Com Etherlink XL Ethernet NIC driver

eri

eri Ethernet NIC driver

fas

SunSwift parallel SCSI HBA driver

FIPE

FIPE (FBDIMM Idle Power Enhancement) driver. This feature enabled small power savings on the Intel FBDIMM2 5000P and 7300P Memory Controller Hub (MCH), and only removes this enhancement. The MCH will continue to function properly.

glm

LSI 53C family of parallel SCSI HBAs driver

hci1394

IEEE 1394 OpenHCI host controller driver

hme

hme Ethernet NIC driver

hxge

Sun Blade Ethernet NIC driver

iec61883

Used to control and exchange data with consumer audio/video devices using protocols specified in "IEC 61883 Consumer Electronic Audio/Video Equipment - Digital Interface."

ieee1394

Support for devices and drivers described in ieee1394 (7D). Instead, you can use USB devices that provide similar functionality.

ifp

ISP2100 family fibre channel Host Bus Adapter driver

iprb

Intel 82557, 82558, and 82559 Ethernet NIC driver

ipw

Intel Pro Wireless 802.11b IPW2100B NIC driver

isp

ISP SCSI Host Bus Adapter driver

iwi

Intel Pro Wireless 802.11a/b/g IPW2200B/G IPW2915A/B/G NIC driver

marvell88sx

Marvell 88SX SATA controller driver

mwl

Marvell 88W8363 IEEE802.11b/g wireless NIC driver

mxfe

Macronix 98715 family Ethernet NIC driver

myri10ge

Myricom Myri10GE 10Gb PCI Express NIC driver

nv_sata

Nvidia ck804/mcp55 SATA controller driver

pcan

Cisco Aironet 802.11b wireless NIC driver

pcata

PCMCIA ATA card device driver

pcic

Intel i82365SL PC Card interface controller

pcmcia

PCMCIA nexus driver

pcn

AMD PCnet Ethernet NIC driver

pcser

PCMCIA serial card device driver

pcwl

Lucent/PrismII 802.11b wireless NIC driver

qfe

qfe Ethernet NIC driver

QLogic 1Gb/2Gb PCIX

The qlc driver no longer supports the QLogic 1Gb/2Gb PCIX firmware. Therefore, support for the ISP2200, ISP2300, ISP2312, and ISP2422 QLogic cards is no longer available.

ral

Ralink RT2500 802.11b/g wireless NIC driver

rtls

Realtek 8139 Ethernet NIC driver

rtw

Realtek 8180L 802.11b wireless NIC driver

rwd

Ralink RT2561/RT2561S/RT2661 IEEE802.11b/g wireless NIC driver

rwn

Ralink RT2700/2800 IEEE802.11 a/b/g/n wireless NIC driver

sbus

Configuration files for SBus device drivers

scsa1394

SCSI to 1394 bridge driver

scu

Intel SAS2.0 storage controller unit driver

sf

SOC+ FC-AL FCP Driver

sfe

SiS900 series Ethernet NIC driver

si3124

SiliconImage 3124/3132 SATA controller driver

socal

Serial Optical Controller for Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (SOC+) device driver

USA49WLC USB Serial Adapter

The USA49WLC USB serial adapter. If you want to use a USB serial adapter, use an alternate device from Keyspan, Prolific, Edgeport, or FTDI.

vr

VIA Rhine Ethernet NIC driver

vxge

Neterion X3100 Ethernet NIC driver

wpi

Intel Pro Wireless 802.11a/b/g 3945 NIC driver

xge

Neterion Xframe Ethernet NIC driver

yge

Marvell Yukon 2 Ethernet NIC driver

/etc/defaultrouter

Instead, you can use the route command to configure persistent routes.

/etc/format.dat

The /etc/format.dat file was the default data file for the format command. The format command no longer supports the following parameters:

• -x , -p , and -t options

• save subcommand

• FORMAT_PATH environment variable

  Note: Starting with the Oracle Solaris 2.3 release, the format command configures disk drives automatically. Therefore, the /etc/format.dat file is not required. For more information, see the format (8) man page.

alacarte

Simple menu editor for GNOME.

Apache httpd 2.2

Version 2.2 of the Apache httpd server. Migrate to httpd 2.4 instead.

APR 1.3
APR-util 1.3

Version 1.3 of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) and APR-util. Migrate to version 1.5 instead.

Areca

Used to take backups.

autogen

A tool designed to simplify the creation and maintenance of programs that contain large amounts of repetitive text.

Automake 1.9.6

Version 1.9.6 of GNU automake . Migrate to a later version instead.

Avant Window Navigator

Customizable dock-like navigator.

babl

Library to convert Pixel format.

bcc

A C compiler, assembler, and linker environment for the production of 8086 executables.

Bluefish

Editor for experienced web designers.

brasero

CD/DVD burning GUI. Instead, use the cdrw or cdrecord command line tools.

byaccj

Parser generator with Java extension.

cheese

GNOME application for taking photos and videos from a webcam.

clisp

ANSI Common Lisp Implementation.

coherence

DLNA/UPnP framework.

compiz

OpenGL compositing window manager. Instead, use gnome-shell .

conman

Console manager.

contact-lookup-applet

Contact Lookup applet for the GNOME panel.

dasher

Predictive text entry system.

dcraw

Tool to decode RAW digital photos.

dia

Diagram editor.

dialog

Tool to display dialog boxes from shell scripts.

Dive into Python

Book on Python programming.

drivel

Blog editor.

dvd+rw-tools

Toolchain to master DVD+RW/+R media.

ejabberd

XMPP instant messaging server.

ekiga

Application for video conferencing.

elinks

ELinks text-based console web browser. Use lynx or links instead.

evolution

Evolution email and calendar client. Use Thunderbird instead.

evolution-exchange

Exchange connector for Evolution.

evolution-webcal

Webcal support for Evolution.

fakeroot

Provides a fake root environment.

fastcgi

Standalone implementation of FastCGI interface for server-side processing of http requests. Use mod_fcgid with Apache httpd instead.

firefox-java

Java plugin for Firefox.

freeipmi

IPMI remote console and system management software.

freetts

Speech synthesis engine.

gcc 3
gcc 4

Older versions of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). Migrate to gcc 11 or newer as provided with Oracle Solaris.

gegl

Generic graphics library.

gFTP

Multi-threaded FTP client.

ggv

GNOME PostScript document viewer. Use evince instead.

gimp

Image editor.

gkrellm

Gtk-based system monitor.

GNOME 2 components

Software that was provided with the GNOME 2 desktop in Oracle Solaris but is not included or required for GNOME 3 is no longer available. Instead, use the GNOME 3 desktop environment.

GNOME Commander

File manager GUI. Instead, use Nautilus, the GNOME 3 file manager.

GNOME Games

Games for the GNOME desktop.

GNOME log viewer

Log viewer GUI.

gnome-nettool

GNOME network tools.

gnome-pilot

PalmPilot link utilities.

gnonlin

Non-linear editing elements for Gstreamer.

gobby

Collaborative text editor.

goffice

Document centric set of APIs.

GParted Partition Editor

GParted (Gnome Parted), a GUI front end partition editor for the GNU Parted tool. Instead, use the GNU Parted CLI tool, which allows you to create and manipulate partition tables on x86 systems.

GQview

Image browser. Instead, use the GNOME eog image browser.

Grails

Groovy-based web application framework.

gthumb

GNOME image organizer.

gtkperf

Performance measurement tool for the GTK2 toolkit.

guile

GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions (guile ), is the official extension language for the GNU project.

ico

Animate an icosahedron or other polyhedron.

ICU 4.6
ICU 54.1

Versions 4.6 and 54.1 of the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library. Migrate to version 59.1 instead.

id3lib

Library for manipulating ID3v1, ID3v1.1, and ID3v2 tags.

idnkit-1.0

Instead, migrate to the idnkit-2.1 library that implements the latest IDNA2008 protocol. The idnkit-2.1 library and its utilities are available starting with Oracle Solaris 11.1.

iperf 2.0.5

A tool for active measurements of the maximum achievable bandwidth on IP networks. Instead, you can use iPerf3.

ircii

Command-line IRC chat client. Instead, you can use other IRC chat clients such as irssi , Pidgin, or Thunderbird.

java_cup

Java source interpreter.

java-gnome

Java bindings to GNOME APIs.

jdepend

Java design quality metrics tool.

jdom

Java alternative to DOM and SAX.

jflex

Fast scanner generator for Java.

Jokosher

Multi-track audio studio application.

jpackage-utils

JPackage utilities.

libdiscid

Library for MusicBrainz DiscIDs.

libgc (libbgc.so )

The Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector library for C/C++.

libgcrypt 1.5

Version 1.5 of the libgcrypt encryption library. Migrate to libgcrypt 1.8 instead.

liblouisxml

Support for braille transcription services for XML documents.

libmikmod

Portable sound library for Unix and other systems.

liboil

Library of optimized inner loops.

libsexy

Collection of GTK+ widgets that extend the functionality of standard widgets.

libunique

Library for writing single instance applications.

libxml++

C++ wrapper for the libxml2 XML library.

logrotate

Rotates, compresses, removes, and mails system log files.

metacity

Window manager. Instead, use the Mutter (Metacity using Clutter) window manager.

Midnight Commander

Terminal-based file manager.

Mozilla libldap

The Mozilla LDAP library libldap.so.5 and related tools. Instead, you can use the OpenLDAP library and tools.

MySQL 5.1

Version 5.1 of the MySQL database. Migrate to MySQL 5.7 instead. See the MySQL documentation for important information on migrating databases to newer versions of MySQL.

mtx

SCSI media changer control program.

Myspell dictionaries

Dictionaries to check spelling for locales outside the core Oracle Solaris language set. If you want to check spelling of words in other languages, you must download and install the dictionaries for those languages.

net6

Library that aids in the development of network-based applications.

net-snmp 5.4.1

Version 5.4 of the Net-SNMP libraries. Migrate to a newer version of net-snmp as provided with Oracle Solaris. Software that requires the net-snmp libraries should be recompiled to use the newer net-snmp libraries.

nethack

Terminal-based dungeon game.

o3read

Standalone converter for the OpenOffice.org swriter (*.sxw ) and scalc (*.sxc ) formats into plain text and HTML.

obby

Network text editing library.

OpenMPI

OpenMPI, an open source implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI). Instead, you can install OpenMPI from https://www.open-mpi.org.

openproj

Project management tool.

OpenStack

OpenStack and its dependencies, and the OpenStack Puppet modules.

openwsman

Open-source implementation of WS-Management.

pegasus

OpenPegasus WBEM services.

Perl 5.12
Perl 5.16

Older versions of the Perl interpreter and modules. Migrate to a newer version of Perl as provided with Oracle Solaris.

pilot-link

PalmOS link utilities.

Planner

Project management tool for the GNOME desktop.

postrun

Provides delayed execution environment for procedural package scripts.

qdox

Extract class/interface/method definitions from sources.

rhythmbox

Media player.

Ruby 1.9.3

Version 1.9 of the Ruby interpreter and modules. Migrate to a newer version of Ruby as provided with Oracle Solaris.

SANE

Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE) is an application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware.

Samba 3.0
Samba 3.6

Older versions of the Samba network servers. Migrate to Samba version 4.x instead.

sblim-cim-client

SBLIM WBEM command line interface.

S-Lang

Library to create robust multi-platform software. The /usr/bin/slsh shell that uses slang has also been removed.

slib

A portable library for the programming language scheme. The /usr/bin/slib command has also been removed.

slrn

News reader that uses the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP).

sound-juicer

CD ripping tool.

stardict

Dictionary platform written in GTK+2.

swt

Standard widget toolkit. Use GTK+3 instead.

Synergy

Synergy mouse and keyboard sharing software.

system-config-printer

Printer Manager GUI for CUPS. Instead, you can use the CUPS web UI to configure printers.

tack

CRT screen handling and optimization package.

tcltls

OpenSSL extension to TCL.

terminator

Terminal emulator. Instead, use gnome-terminal .

transmission

GTK and console BitTorrent client.

tsclient

Front-end for rdesktop and other remote desktop tools.

VNC web client

The -httpd option to the Xvnc and vncserver commands and the associated VNC client Java applet. Users should use local VNC viewer software on client devices instead.

w3m

Text-based web browser. Instead, you can use other text-based browsers such as links or lynx .

wbemcli

Java CIM client library.

X11 Network Proxies

The lbxproxy , xfwp , xfindproxy , and proxymngr utilities for proxying the X11 protocol over low-bandwidth connections or through a firewall.

xbiff

Mailbox flag for X.

xcalc

Scientific calculator for X. Use the GNOME Calculator instead.

xchat

XChat IRC client. Instead, you can use other IRC chat clients such as irssi , Pidgin, or Thunderbird.

xdg-user-dirs

Tool to help manage user directories.

xdg-user-dirs-gtk

GTK front-end for handling user directories.

xditview

Display ditroff output. Instead, generate PDF output and use a PDF viewer for sharing formatted documents.

xedit

Simple text editor for X. Use the GNOME Text Editor, gvim , or emacs instead.

xgc

X graphics demo.

xlswins

Used to list a window tree. Instead, you can use the -tree option of the xwininfo command to list a window tree.

xman

Man page display program for the X Window System. Use the GNOME Help Browser or view man pages on https://docs.oracle.com/ instead.

xmlrpc-c

A lightweight RPC library based on XML and HTTP.

xsane

Graphical scanning front-end for the SANE scanner interface.

xvidtune

Video mode tuner for Xorg. Use Display preferences in GNOME Settings instead.

libadt_jni

Java Native Interface to the auditing library.

libcmd.so

The undocumented /usr/lib/libcmd.so library is no longer available. All the functionality is available in the libc library.

libmp.so.1

Following the removal of SunOS4 binary compatibility in Oracle Solaris 11, the libmp.so.1 library is no longer needed and has been removed.

libldap.so.4

Instead, you can use the OpenLDAP libraries when writing LDAP applications. See the ldap (3oldap) man page.

libplot

The following commands, libraries, and header files associated with the legacy plotting framework libplot (3LIB) are no longer available:

      
    /usr/bin/tplot
    /usr/lib/libplot.so.1
    /usr/lib/64/libplot.so.1
    /usr/include/plot.h
    
     
    

For the plotting functionality on Oracle Solaris, you can use the gnuplot utility. The gnuplot utility is available in the image/gnuplot package.

libresolv.so.1

The libresolv.so.1 library, which is multi-thread (MT) unsafe, is no longer available. Instead, use the MT safe libresolv.so.2 library, which has been available in Oracle Solaris since 1997.

libsys.so.1

The legacy /usr/lib/libsys.so.1 (3LIB) filter provided a subset of the standard C /usr/lib/libc.so.1 library. Instead, use libc .

libXaw.so.4
libXaw.so.5

Applications that use Athena Widgets and are required to run on Oracle Solaris 11.4 or later should be rebuilt with the libXaw.so.7 library. For more information, see the libXaw (3lib) man page.

libXm.so.3
libMrm.so.3

The Motif 1.2 libraries, including the libXm.so.3 and libMrm.so.3 libraries, are no longer included with Oracle Solaris. Applications that use Motif should be built with the Motif 2.1 libraries libXm.so.4 and libMrm.so.4 that are available since Oracle Solaris 7.

medialib

Used to accelerate multimedia applications.

uDAPL

The User Direct Access Programming Library (uDAPL) as described in libdat (3lib) and related man pages. Instead, you can use Open Fabrics User Verbs (OFUV). For more information see, the verbs (7) and rdma_cm (7) man pages.

Web-Based Enterprise Management

Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) libraries are no longer provided.

Items in the System → Administration menu that are no longer available

Alternative CLI commands

Apache Web Server

svccfg , svcadm

Core Files

coreadm

System Firewall

svccfg , svcadm

SMF Services

svccfg , svcadm , svcs

Date Time

date

User Manager

useradd , usermod , userdel , passwd , roleadd , rolemod , roledel

Monitored Resources (sysmon icon)

svcs

gkadmin

An interactive Graphical User Interface (GUI) that enables you to maintain Kerberos principals and policies. Instead, use the kadmin command to administer an Oracle Solaris KDC. For more information, see the kadmin (1) man page.

Apache Tomcat 6.0

Version 6.0 of the Apache Tomcat application server. Migrate to Tomcat 8.5 instead.

beanshell

An embeddable Java source interpreter with object scripting language features written in Java.

Grails

Groovy-based web application framework.

GnuTLS 2.8.6

Version 2.8.6 of the GnuTLS secure communications library. Migrate to version 3.5 or newer as provided with Oracle Solaris.

Perl 5.8.4

Version 5.8.4 of the Perl interpreter and modules for it are no longer included. Migrate to a newer version of Perl as provided with Oracle Solaris.

PHP 5.3

Version 5.3 of the PHP interpreter and modules for it are no longer included. Migrate to a newer version of PHP as provided with Oracle Solaris.

Python 2.6

Version 2.6 of the Python interpreter and modules for it are no longer included. Migrate to Python 2.7 or Python 3.x instead.

Sound eXchange (sox )

A cross-platform audio editing software. The audio/sox package that includes the sox command and associated libraries is no longer included in Oracle Solaris.

MySQL 5.1

MySQL version 5.1 has been removed. Instead, you can use MySQL version 5.5 or 5.6.

PHP 5.2

PHP version 5.2 has been removed. Instead, you can use a newer version of PHP.

Python 2.6

Python version 2.6 has been removed. Instead, you can use version 2.7 or 3.4 of Python.

Ruby 1.8.7

Ruby version 1.8.7 has been removed. Instead, you can use a newer version of Ruby.