The default Oracle pkg repository is http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release. This is a relatively open repository by design. Oracle allows almost everyone to use base Solaris 11 for almost any reason except for "production use".

If for some reason you end up in a state with no repository configured for your Solaris 11 machine, you can point your pkg configuration at that URL, and be able to install packages from the most recent full Solaris 11 release. However, there are no updates or patches.

Configuring your system to use it is fairly easy; you can use the following command:

pkg set-publisher -g http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release solaris

The final argument signifies a "publisher", so normally it would be something.com. Unfortunately, Oracle decided to break its own rules for this.

It is possible to have multiple publishers configured, similar to the way in which Red Hat users may configure multiple yum repositories. The rule is that there...