Displaying Package Descriptions or Licenses

The pkg info command displays information about a package, including the name, installed state, version, packaging date, package size, and the full FMRI. With no options or operands, this command displays information about all packages that are installed in the current image. To narrow your results, provide one or more package names. You can use wildcards in the package names. Quote the wildcards so that the argument is passed directly to pkg and the shell does not expand it.

/usr/bin/pkg info [-lr] [-g path_or_uri ...] [--license] [pkg_fmri_pattern ...]

Both the info and list subcommands display the package name, publisher, and version information. The pkg list command shows whether an update exists for the package, whether an update can be installed in this image, and whether a package is obsolete or renamed. The pkg info command displays the package summary, description, category, and size, and can separately display the license information.

The -r option displays the newest available versions, retrieving information for any packages not currently installed from the repositories of the configured publishers.

$ pkg info -r group/feature/amp
          Name: group/feature/amp
       Summary: AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) Deployment Kit for Oracle Solaris
   Description: Provides a set of components for deployment of an AMP (Apache,
                MySQL, PHP) stack on Oracle Solaris
      Category: Meta Packages/Group Packages (org.opensolaris.category.2008)
                Web Services/Application and Web Servers (org.opensolaris.category.2008)
         State: Not installed
     Publisher: solaris
       Version: 0.5.11
 Build Release: 5.11
        Branch: 0.175.1.0.0.21.0
Packaging Date: July 23, 2012 06:20:57 PM
          Size: 5.46 kB
          FMRI: pkg://solaris/group/feature/amp@0.5.11,5.11-0.175.1.0.0.21.020120723T182057Z

Use the pkg info command to find the new name of a renamed package. The following example shows that the new name of the developer/dtrace/toolkit package is system/dtrace/dtrace-toolkit.

$ pkg info -r developer/dtrace/toolkit
          Name: developer/dtrace/toolkit
       Summary:
         State: Not installed (Renamed)
    Renamed to: pkg:/system/dtrace/dtrace-toolkit@0.99,5.11-0.173.0.0.0.0.0
                consolidation/osnet/osnet-incorporation
     Publisher: solaris
       Version: 0.99
 Build Release: 5.11
        Branch: 0.173.0.0.0.1.0
Packaging Date: August 26, 2011 02:55:51 PM
          Size: 5.45 kB
          FMRI: pkg://solaris/developer/dtrace/toolkit@0.99,5.11-0.173.0.0.0.1.0:20110826T145551Z

The --license option displays the license texts for the packages. This information can be quite lengthy. The information shown above (without the --license option) is not displayed.

$ pkg info --license x11/server/xorg
Copyright (c) 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
...

Use the -g option to specify the repository or package archive to use as the source of package data for the operation.