Displaying Package Descriptions or Licenses

The pkg info command displays information about a package, including the name, description, installed state, version, packaging date, package size, and the full FMRI. With no options or operands, the pkg info command displays information about all packages that are installed in the current image. To narrow your results, provide one or more package names. You can use wildcards in the package names. Quote the wildcards so that the argument is passed directly to pkg and the shell does not expand it.

Both the info and list subcommands display the package name, publisher, and version information.

The pkg list command shows whether an update exists for the package, whether an update can be installed in this image, and whether a package is obsolete, renamed, or frozen. The pkg list command can also show the package summary and the full FMRI.

The pkg info command displays the package summary, description, category, size, whether the package is frozen, the last install or update time, and the source location for open source software. The pkg info command can separately display license information.