Pkgutil

Pkgutil, written in Perl and licensed under the GPL, is a tool to make installation of packages in Solaris easier. It handles package dependencies so all required packages are installed before the desired package automatically. This is based on functionality present in apt-get (Debian Linux).

It is used by both OpenCSW and Blastwave, two packaging projects for open source software for Solaris.

In Mac OS X, pkgutil is a different utility used to query and manipulate Mac OS X Installer packages and receipts.

Overview 

# pkgutil
pkgutil 1.10, install Solaris packages the easy way.

Usage: pkgutil [option]... [package](-[version])...

 -i, --install         Install package
 -u, --upgrade         Upgrade package
 -r, --remove          Remove package (experimental)
 -d, --download        Download only
 -U, --catalog         Update catalog
 -a, --available       Show available packages—describe        Describe available packages
 -c, --compare         Compare installed packages to current
 -C                    Same as -c but only show different versions
 -e, --email=address   Send e-mail with available updates
 -t, --temp=site       Temporarily use this site as primary for download
 -x, --exclude=package Package to exclude
 -W, --workdir=path    Path to use for downloads—config=file     Use this configuration file
 -y, --yes             Answer yes on all prompts
 -f, --force           Force updates (sync with mirror)
 -n, --nomod           No modifications are made to the system
 -N, --nodeps          No dependencies
 -D, --debug           Debug mode—trace           Set trace mode (-v) for pkgadd/pkgrm
 -h, --help            Show this help
 -v, --version         Show version
 -V, --syscheck        System check
 -L, --listfile        List files in package
 -F, --findfile        Find files in package—extract         Extract package content (use with -d)
 -s, --stream          Build a package stream (use with -d)
 -o, --output=file     File name for package stream (use with -s)
 -T, --target=arch:rel Specify architecture and OS release for download—single          Single package check (use with -c)
 -p, --param=opt:val   Override configuration option

Example: pkgutil -i CSWwget (install wget and its dependencies)

Written and maintained by Peter Bonivart.
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