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How to Find and Download Solaris Patch Clusters and Bundles in MOS

A. The Quick Way to find All Solaris Clusters & Bundles
1.Go to My Oracle Support Portal
2.Select the ‘Patches & Updates’ tab
3.In the ‘Patch Search’ frame, click on ‘Product & Family (Advanced Search)’
4.In ‘Product is’, enter ‘Solaris Operating System’
5. In the next line, ‘Release is’, click on the down arrow right and check the Release(s) you need.
6a. In the next line, click the down arrow right of the button which by default shows ‘Platform’ and select ‘Type’.

Then you can save your Search criteria with the ‘Save’ button.
To Run your query, click on the yellow ‘Search’ button.
Next time, you can select your Query name in the ‘Saved’ tab of the ‘Patch Search’ frame.

Unzip the patchbundle
For example 10_x86_Recommended.zip
unzip -q 10_x86_Recommended.zip
The option -q means quiet, so no output on the screen. Unzipping the bundle can take a while.

The patches are unzipped in a directory. In this directory is a README file. Read this to see if the bundle is meant for your type of system. Review the file to see if there are issues. Bring the Solaris system to single usermode. init -s

You’ll be asked to type the root-password for maintenance.
In single usermode you browse to the directory where the patchbundle is.
In the directory is a script
installpatchset

Start the patchinstallation ./installpatchset — The passcode is in the readmefile. It is a security item to make sure you have opened the readmefile.

Done