Installing and Updating Packages
The following table shows similarities and differences between the pkg install
and pkg update
commands.
Table 3-1
pkg install
and pkg update
Comparison
pkg install | pkg update |
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See the preserve
and overlay
attributes of the file
action in the pkg
(7) man page to understand how files with these attributes are handled during installation and update.
After installing or updating packages, verify installed packages. See Verifying Packages and Fixing Verification Errors.
For information about how a file action with certain attributes is treated when the package that delivers the file is installed or updated, see File Actions in Packaging and Delivering Software With the Image Packaging System in Oracle Solaris 11.4 or the pkg
(7) man page.