pkginfo(1) User Commands pkginfo(1)NAMEpkginfo - display software package information
SYNOPSISpkginfo [-q | -x | -l] [-p | -i] [-r] [-a arch]
[-v version] [-c category]... [pkginst]...
pkginfo-d device [-R root_path] [-q | -x | -l] [-a arch]
[-v version] [-c category]... [pkginst]...
DESCRIPTIONpkginfo displays information about software packages that are installed
on the system (with the first synopsis) or that reside on a particular
device or directory (with the second synopsis).
Without options, pkginfo lists the primary category, package instance,
and the names of all completely installed and partially installed pack‐
ages. It displays one line for each package selected.
OPTIONS
The -p and -i options are meaningless if used in conjunction with the
-d option.
The options -q, -x, and -l are mutually exclusive.
-a arch
Specify the architecture of the package as arch.
-c category
Display packages that match category. Categories are defined with
the CATEGORY parameter in the pkginfo(4) file. If more than one
category is supplied, the package needs to match only one category
in the list. The match is not case specific.
-d device
Defines a device, device, on which the software resides. device can
be an absolute directory pathname or the identifiers for tape,
floppy disk, removable disk, and so forth. The special token spool
may be used to indicate the default installation spool directory
(/var/spool/pkg).
-i
Display information for fully installed packages only.
-l
Specify long format, which includes all available information about
the designated package(s).
-p
Display information for partially installed packages only.
-q
Do not list any information. Used from a program to check whether
or not a package has been installed.
-r
List the installation base for relocatable packages.
-R root_path
Defines the full path name of a directory to use as the root_path.
All files, including package system information files, are relo‐
cated to a directory tree starting in the specified root_path.
-v version
Specify the version of the package as version. The version is
defined with the VERSION parameter in the pkginfo(4) file. All com‐
patible versions can be requested by preceding the version name
with a tilde (∼). Multiple white spaces are replaced with a single
white space during version comparison.
-x
Designate an extracted listing of package information. The listing
contains the package abbreviation, package name, package architec‐
ture (if available) and package version (if available).
OPERANDS
pkginst
A package designation by its instance. An instance can be the pack‐
age abbreviation or a specific instance (for example, inst.1 or
inst.2). All instances of a package can be requested by inst.*. The
asterisk character (*) is a special character to some shells and
may need to be escaped. In the C-Shell, "*" must be surrounded by
single quotes (') or preceded by a backslash (\).
EXIT STATUS
0
Successful completion.
>0
An error occurred.
FILES
/var/spool/pkg
default installation spool directory
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWcsu │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOpkgtrans(1), pkgadd(1M), pkgask(1M), pkgchk(1M), pkgrm(1M), pkginfo(4),
attributes(5), largefile(5)NOTES
Package commands are largefile(5)-aware. They handle files larger than
2 GB in the same way they handle smaller files. In their current imple‐
mentations, pkgadd(1M), pkgtrans(1) and other package commands can
process a datastream of up to 4 GB.
SunOS 5.10 5 Jan 2012 pkginfo(1)
