Chapter 3, Installing and Updating Software Packages, discussed installing, updating, fixing, and uninstalling one or a few packages that are named on the command line. This chapter describes how to upgrade an Oracle Solaris image to the next support update or to the next release. Upgrading your system means updating a bootable image. A physical or virtual machine can have multiple bootable images, as noted in Images and Boot Environments.
Updating requires increased privileges. See Installation Privileges for more information.
For a complete list of all options for the pkg update command, see the pkg(1) man page.