How do I install packages on a Nexenta system?
Nexenta uses APT, just as Debian and Ubuntu do. However, it also has a new tool called apt-clone, which uses ZFS’s snapshotting features. To install a package using apt-clone, firstly you’d update the APT cache by running “apt-get update”, just as you would from Debian. This will fetch the latest package lists from the Nexenta APT repositories (it does not use the Debian or Ubuntu repositories) and cache them on your machine. When you’ve done that you’d enter “apt-clone -l” to list the available “boot environments. If you’ve never used apt-clone before, you should have just the one. Now, suppose you wanted to run a “dist-upgrade” to update all of the packages on your machine, but you wanted to create a snapshot of the current state to allow you to roll the system back in case something failed. You can do this by entering the command “apt-clone dist-upgrade”. Nexenta will now grab all of the latest packages and install them, while creating an additional boot environment for you to rollb
