Installing and Updating Packages
The following table shows similarities and differences between the
pkg install and pkg update
commands.
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pkg install
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Requires one or more package names as operands.
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Installs packages that are not currently installed.
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Updates packages that are already installed.
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Does not downgrade packages. If you specify an installed package at a
lower version, the system does not install that package.
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pkg update
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Takes zero or more names of packages that are already installed as
operands.
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Updates installed packages.
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Specifying no package names or specifying '*' updates
all packages that are installed in the image.
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Downgrades installed packages to the version specified in the FMRI.
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Does not install packages that are not already installed. If you specify a
package that is not already installed, the system does not install that
package.
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See the preserve and overlay
attributes of the file action in the pkg(5) man page to understand how files with these attributes
are handled during installation and update.