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System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

ProcedureHow to List Information About All Installed Packages (pkginfo)

  1. List information about installed packages by using the pkginfo command.


    $ pkginfo
Example 20–12 Listing Installed Packages

This example shows how to list all packages installed on a local system, whether that system is a stand-alone system or a server. The output shows the primary category, package name, and the description of the package. 


$ pkginfo
system      SUNWaccr       System Accounting, (Root)
system      SUNWaccu       System Accounting, (Usr)
system      SUNWadmap      System administration applications
system      SUNWadmc       System administration core libraries
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Example 20–13 Displaying Detailed Information About Software Packages

This example shows how to list all packages installed on a system by specifying the long format, which includes all available information about the designated packages.


$ pkginfo -l SUNWcar
   PKGINST:  SUNWcar
      NAME:  Core Architecture, (Root)
  CATEGORY:  system
      ARCH:  sparc.sun4u
   VERSION:  11.9.0,REV=2002.04.06.15.27
   BASEDIR:  /
    VENDOR:  Sun Microsystems, Inc.
      DESC:  core software for a specific hardware platform group
    PSTAMP:  leo20031003183400
  INSTDATE:  Feb 20 2004 16:57
   HOTLINE:  Please contact your local service provider
    STATUS:  completely installed
     FILES:      114 installed pathnames
                  36 shared pathnames
                  40 directories
                  57 executables
               21469 blocks used (approx)