Displaying Information About Software Packages

To display information about software packages, refer to the following examples. No special privileges are required to display information about packages.

Determine whether a package is installed in the current image and whether an update is available.

$ pkg list amp
pkg list: no packages matching 'amp' installed

List packages that are not installed, but are available to be installed.

$ pkg list -a amp
NAME (PUBLISHER)                                  VERSION                    IFO
amp                                               0.5.11-0.133               --r
group/feature/amp                                 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.0.2566  ---
web/amp                                           0.5.11-0.174.0.0.0.0.0     --r

Display more information about a package. If you already know the package is not installed in the image, use the -r option to query the package repository, as follows:

$ pkg info -r amp
          Name: amp
       Summary: 
         State: Not installed (Renamed)
    Renamed to: web/amp@0.5.11-0.133
                consolidation/sfw/sfw-incorporation
     Publisher: solaris
       Version: 0.5.11
 Build Release: 5.11
        Branch: 0.133
Packaging Date: Wed Oct 27 18:31:05 2010
          Size: 0.00 B
          FMRI: pkg://solaris/amp@0.5.11,5.11-0.133:20101027T183105Z

          Name: group/feature/amp
       Summary: AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) Deployment Kit for Oracle Solaris
   Description: Provides a set of components for deployment of an AMP (Apache,
                MySQL, PHP) stack on Oracle Solaris
      Category: Meta Packages/Group Packages ...)
                Web Services/Application and Web Servers (...)
         State: Not installed
     Publisher: solaris
       Version: 0.5.11
 Build Release: 5.11
        Branch: 0.175.0.0.0.0.2566
Packaging Date: Tue Sep 27 13:06:15 2011
          Size: 5.45 kB
          FMRI: pkg://solaris/group/feature/amp@0.5.11,5.11-0.175.
0.0.0.0.2566:20110927T130615Z

          Name: web/amp
       Summary: 
         State: Not installed (Renamed)
    Renamed to: group/feature/amp@0.5.11-0.174.0.0.0.0.0
                consolidation/ips/ips-incorporation
     Publisher: solaris
       Version: 0.5.11
 Build Release: 5.11
        Branch: 0.174.0.0.0.0.0
Packaging Date: Wed Sep 21 19:15:02 2011
          Size: 5.45 kB
          FMRI: pkg://solaris/web/amp@0.5.11,5.11-0.174.
0.0.0.0.0:20110921T191502Z

List all of the package groups that are installed or that are available for installation:

% pkg list -a 'group/*'
NAME (PUBLISHER)                                  VERSION                    IFO
group/feature/amp (solaris)                       0.5.11-0.175.1.0.0.3.2590  ---
group/feature/developer-gnu (solaris)             0.5.11-0.175.1.0.0.3.2590  i--
group/feature/multi-user-desktop (solaris)        0.5.11-0.175.1.0.0.3.2590  ---
group/feature/storage-avs (solaris)               0.5.11-0.175.1.0.0.3.0     i--
group/feature/storage-nas (solaris)               0.5.11-0.175.1.0.0.3.0     i--
group/feature/storage-server (solaris)            0.5.11-0.175.1.0.0.3.0     i--
group/feature/trusted-desktop (solaris)           0.5.11-0.175.1.0.0.3.2590  i--
group/system/solaris-auto-install (solaris)       0.5.11-0.175.1.0.0.3.2590  ---
group/system/solaris-desktop (solaris)            0.5.11-0.175.1.0.0.3.2590  ---
group/system/solaris-large-server (solaris)       0.5.11-0.175.1.0.0.3.2590  ---
group/system/solaris-small-server (solaris)       0.5.11-0.175.1.0.0.3.2590  i--

If you know the name of the tool that you want to install, but not the name of the package, use the search subcommand in one of the following ways:

$ pkg search /usr/bin/emacs
INDEX      ACTION VALUE         PACKAGE
path       file   usr/bin/emacs pkg:/editor/gnu-emacs@23.1-0.175.0.0.0.0.525
$ pkg search file::emacs
INDEX      ACTION VALUE                PACKAGE
basename   file   usr/bin/emacs        pkg:/editor/gnu-emacs@23.1-0.175.0.0.0.0.525
basename   file   usr/share/info/emacs pkg:/editor/gnu-emacs@23.1-0.175.0.0.0.0.525