Notes on how to query the status of sun software packages. This includes the vendor software Sun provides
and the open source initiative Blastwave.
We shall use the font
for actual command output or command names and italic type for man pages.
To indicate a shell prompt we shall use $
to indicate a non-root user prompt and #
for a
root user prompt.
Suppose we want to list all installed packages on the system. We run pkginfo
without any options. The second column is the package name as is confirmed by
querying a single package:
$ pkginfo SUNWspl system SUNWspl Spell Checking Engine - Base Release (English) <snipped the rest of the output>
Querying a particular package (along with the -l
option) more info.
pkginfo -l SUNWspl PKGINST: SUNWspl NAME: Spell Checking Engine - Base Release (English) CATEGORY: system ARCH: sparc VERSION: 3.3.1,REV=10.1999.12.02 BASEDIR: /usr VENDOR: Sun Microsystems, Inc. DESC: Spell Checking Engine - Base Release (English) PSTAMP: togos19991202021047 INSTDATE: May 24 2004 16:22 HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider STATUS: completely installed FILES: 13 installed pathnames 3 shared pathnames 5 directories 1 executables 1834 blocks used (approx)We are told there are various types of files installed but we are not told what they are. How to list them? For this one uses the
pkgchk
command. For example, for the SUNWspl
package
$ pkgchk -l SUNWspl Pathname: /usr/dt Type: directory Expected mode: 0775 Expected owner: root Expected group: bin Referenced by the following packages: SUNWfdl SUNWeusru SUNWeuezt SUNWeudmg SUNWeudlg SUNWeudiv SUNWeudis SUNWeudhs SUNWeudhr SUNWeudda SUNWeudbd SUNWeudba SUNWdtct SUNWdtcor SUNWdticn SUNWdthez SUNWdtim SUNWdtjxt SUNWdtdst SUNWdtwm NSCPcom SUNWsregu SUNWscgui SUNWwsrv SUNWdtezt SUNWspl SUNWj2pi SUNWjmfp SUNWdtbax SUNWdtdem SUNWdtmaz SUNWdtnsc SUNWmfdev SUNWpdas SUNWdtdte SUNWxwfa Current status: installed Pathname: /usr/dt/config Type: directory Expected mode: 0775 Expected owner: root Expected group: bin Referenced by the following packages: SUNWeudmg SUNWeudlg SUNWeudhs SUNWdtdmn SUNWdtdst SUNWdtwm SUNWsregu SUNWdthe SUNWdthed SUNWscgui SUNWspl SUNWdtbas SUNWdtdte Current status: installed Pathname: /usr/dt/config/sdtdict Type: directory Expected mode: 0775 Expected owner: root Expected group: bin Referenced by the following packages: SUNWspl Current status: installed <snipped the rest>Not quite as compact as one would like. It's important to realize that
pkgchk
actually checks the integrity
of files and will fix them. All the data is stored /var/sadm/install/contents
file. Hence running
as non-root seems sensible.
/opt/csw
and are prefixed by CSW
. On core.cs we have
application CSWaudiofile audiofile - Silicon Graphics Audio File Library application CSWbdb4 berkeleydb4 - Embedded database libraries and utilities application CSWbdb43 berkeleydb43 - BerkeleyDB 4.3 libraries and utilities application CSWbonobo2 libbonobo2 - GNOME component and compound document system application CSWbzip2 bzip2 - a high-quality block-sorting file compressor system CSWcommon common - common files and dirs for CSW packages application CSWddd ddd - GNU DDD (Data Display Debugger) application CSWdtopfutils desktopfileutils - utilities for working with desktop entries and .menu files application CSWesound esound - EsounD, The Enlightened Sound Daemon application CSWexpat expat - XML Parser Toolkit system CSWfam fam - File Alteration Monitor, daemon and interface library application CSWfconfig fontconfig - A library for configuring and customizing font access. application CSWfirefox firefox - mozilla.org browser application CSWfreeradius freeradius - radius server application CSWftype2 freetype2 - The free and portable high quality font engine application CSWgcc3corert gcc3corert - GNU C Compiler Run Time application CSWgcc3g++rt gcc3g++rt - GNU C++ Compiler Run Time application CSWgconf2 gconf2 - GNOME configuration database system system CSWgd gd - libgd, Graphics creation library and utilities system CSWgdbm gdbm - GNU dbm system CSWggettext ggettext - GNU gettext application CSWglib2 glib2 - Low-level core library that forms the basis of GTK+ application CSWgnomemime2 gnomemime2 - MIME type database for GNOME application CSWgnomevfs2 gnomevfs2 - GNOME Virtual File System application CSWgs ghostscript - GPL Ghostscript, a PostScript and PDF interpreter for previewing, conversion and printing application CSWgsed gsed - The GNU non-interactive text Stream-oriented EDitor (sed) system CSWgsfonts gsfonts - Fonts and AFMs for use with GhostScript application CSWgtk2 gtk2 - GTK+, The multi-platform toolkit for GUI development system CSWiconv libiconv - GNU iconv library application CSWjasper jasper - An image data software toolkit for JPEG-2000 codec standard system CSWjbig2dec jbig2dec - decoder implementing JBIG2 bi-level image compression system CSWjpeg jpeg - lib and tools for JPEG image format application CSWkrb5lib krb5_lib - MIT Kerberos 5 core libraries application CSWlibatk libatk - Accessibility toolkit for GNOME application CSWlibcairo libcairo - The Cairo 2D Graphics Library application CSWlibcups libcups - Library and Header Files for the Common UNIX Printing System application CSWlibgnome libgnome - The main GNOME library application CSWlibidl libidl - Library for handling CORBA IDL system CSWlibnet libnet - the libnet packet construction library application CSWlibpopt libpopt - Command line option parsing library application CSWlibtool libtool - Generic library support script application CSWlibxft2 libxft2 - FreeType-based font drawing library for X application CSWlibxml2 libxml2 - XML Parser Library application CSWlibxrender libxrender - fontconfig.org Xrender library application CSWncurses ncurses - ncurses library and utilities application CSWoldap openldap - OpenLDAP standalone server and update replication daemons (oldap) application CSWoldapclient openldap_client - OpenLDAP client executables (oldapclient) application CSWoldaprt openldap_rt - OpenLDAP runtime libraries (oldaprt) application CSWorbit2 orbit2 - ORBit 2.x CORBA tools and libs application CSWossl openssl - The Open Source toolkit for SSL and TLS. application CSWpango libpango - Library for laying out and rendering text application CSWperl perl - A high-level, general-purpose programming language. system CSWpkgget pkg_get - CSW version of automated package download tool system CSWpmtk pm_tk - a Graphical User Interface ToolKit perl module system CSWpng png - library for Portable Network Graphics format (PNG) system CSWreadline readline - library to enable interactive line editing application CSWrenderdev render_dev - fontconfig.org render development files application CSWsambalib samba_lib - Tools to access a server's filespace and printers via SMB (lib) application CSWsasl sasl - Simple Authentication and Security Layer system CSWsunmath libsunmath - Sun maths library application CSWt1lib t1lib - Type1 font renderering library system CSWtcpwrap tcpwrappers - (ipv6.4 patched) lib and tools for pre-screening tcp connections application CSWtetex tetex - A complete TeX distribution application CSWtexinfo texinfo - The GNU Documentation System application CSWthunderbird thunderbird - Mozilla Thunderbird Mail Client system CSWtiff tiff - lib and tools for Tag Image File Format application CSWtransfig transfig - facility for translating fig code application CSWunixodbc unixodbc - ODBC access to data sources application CSWwget wget - A network utility to retrieve files from the Web system CSWxaw3d xaw3d - Xaw3d, Three-D Athena Toolkit application CSWxfig xfig - Xfig is an interactive drawing tool system CSWxpm xpm - library for X11 PixMap format (libXpm.so.4.11) application CSWzlib zlib - Zlib Data Compression Librarywhich (as of August 21, 2006) gives 73 packages. The beauty of this collection of packages is the command
pkg-get
will download the package and it's dependencies. It's inspired by the famous
apt-get
command of Debian. It is important to realize that pkg-get
runs the vendor tool
pkgadd
to install the packages. These are not Debian packages!
pkgchk -l packagename |grep '^Pathname:' | sed -e 's|^Pathname:||'
where the list of packagenames are as above.