Package Administration

Software package management simplifies installing and updating software. Administration is simplified because the method for managing system software and third party applications is now consistent. The tools for creating software packages are in an application packaging tools library.

There are two tools you can use to install and remove packages:

• A graphical user interface program (see the admintool(1M) man page)

• The command-line utilities (see the pkgadd(1M) and pkgrm(1M) man pages)

Graphical User Interface (admintool)

You can install software on your local system or on a remote system with Admintool (started with the admintool command). The default location for the installation is the local system.

Use Admintool to:

• Look at the software installed on the local system

• Install or remove software on a local system

If you want to install or remove the software, you must run Admintool as superuser or as a user in the sysadmin group (group 14). You do not need to be superuser to look at the software packages that are already installed on a system.

Command-Line Utilities

You can use command-line utilities to install, remove, and check the installation of software packages. The commands are:

• pkgadd(1M) for installing a package

• pkgrm(1M) for removing a package

• pkgchk(1M) for checking the installation of a package

• pkginfo(1M) for listing the packages installed on a system