[OpenIndiana-discuss] Where can I see real cmdlines of using pkg command?

Alexander Eremin alexander.r.eremin at gmail.com
Wed Aug 28 18:36:30 UTC 2013


For example http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/solaris11-pkg.html
or http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/documentation/ips-one-liners-032011-337775.pdf

Alexander

On 28.08.2013, at 22:21, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:

> I'm not getting enough out of man pkg to really get the idea.
> 
> The real basic stuff yeah ok.
> But I'm thinking you can do things like list all your installed
> packages. 
> 
> The man page mentions User commans list and -a as showing installed
> pkgs. 
> If you wanted to know which editors were installed. How to do that?
>   things like `pkg list editor'.. fails with:
> 
>   no packages matching 'editor' allowed by installed incorporations,
>   or image variants that are known or installed
> 
> but this: `pkg list vim' shows:
>  NAME (PUBLISHER)      VERSION               IFO
>  editor/vim        7.2.308-0.151.1.8          i--
> 
> So it shows  `editor' right under the NAME column. So what exaclty
> does `pkg' expect in the way of telling it what to search for.
> Do I have to do each individual pkg and now all the correct names or
> what?
> 
> I'd really like to see a couple of pages full of actual pkg commands
> with a little brief telling what they do.  Is there such a thing
> somewhere? 
> 
> 
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