Written by Joerg Moellenkamp
on April 08, 2021

S11.4CS: General Administration - Packaging

Oracle Solaris 11.4 General Administration

Packaging

Install a package called diagnostic/wireshark:

# pkg install diagnostic/wireshark

Install a group package to provide a desktop environment

# pkg install solaris-desktop

Install package as if you were installing it on a freshly installed system

# pkg exact-install web/server/apache-22/module/apache-wsgi-26

Warning! All packages that are not a dependency of this package will be removed while installing it. This is what the command is meant for.

Update all possible packages to the newest version, including any zones

# pkg update

List available packages

# pkg list -a

Do a dry run of a system update to identify what packages might change

# pkg update -nv

Uninstall a package called diagnostic/wireshark

# pkg uninstall wireshark

List all packages installed on a system:

# pkg list

Get more information about an installed package called diagnostic/wireshark

# pkg info wireshark

List the contents of an installed package called diagnostic/wireshark

# pkg contents wireshark

Search all packages in the configured repositories for a file called math.h

# pkg search math.h

Search for all packages installed on a system that have a dependency on library/libxml2:

# pkg search -l -o pkg.name 'depend::library/libxml2'

List currently associated package publishers

# pkg publisher

Search for legacy packages not in the legacy namespace (11.4)

# pkg search -l -o pkg.fmri :pkg.legacy:true

Connect to the Oracle support repository and update the system

# pkg set-publisher -g https://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/support \\
-G http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release -k /path/to/ssl_key \\
-c /path/to/ssl_cert solaris
# pkg update

Where can i get the nescessary certificates and keys to access the support repository to get fixes?

You can get them at https://pkg-register.oracle.com given you have a valid support contract.

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