Solaris Package Management

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I'm completely new to Solaris but i'm working on a project involving documenting package management in Unix. I need to figure out where, if at all, does Solaris store the local data of installed/available packages? dpkg and RPM store either a local textfile or a local database file that can be easily read in /var/lib/, but I can't find similar for Solaris. Any tips?

Thanks!

syklops

The RPM/dpkg/yum equivalent on solaris is called pkgadd.

You can find the man page here

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syklops wrote: »

The RPM/dpkg/yum equivalent on solaris is called pkgadd.

You can find the man page here

From the man page:

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/var/sadm/install/logs/ Location where pkgadd logs an instance of software installation.

I think this is what I was looking for, thanks!

duffman85

Solaris 10 keeps track of packages in /var/sadm/pkg/<Package Name>

If you dig down into /var/sadm/pkg/<Package Name>/save/pspool/ directory you can see the pkginfo and pkgmap files which have the package details - revision,architecture etc. and the list of all the files installed by the package - pkgmap

Also, have a look at the pkginfo,pkgadd,pkgrm,pkgchk commands

opus

Wow that's a blast from the past, like the posters say above the 'pkginfo' command is your friend.

I don't remember there being anything like the 'yum list available' command though as Solaris didn't have any online sources or at least it didn't back in the day anyway

Giuseppe90

Solaris 11 from what I have read has introduced IPS (Image Packaging System). Seems to be more down the line of YUM etc. although I have only briefly researched it myself.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/technologies/ips-323421.html