Displaying Information About Software Packages

To display information about software packages, refer to the following examples. No special privileges are required to display information about packages.

List the packages that are currently installed on your system:

$ pkg list | more

Determine whether a specific package is installed in the current image and whether an update is available.

$ pkg list amp
pkg list: no packages matching 'amp' installed

Display more information about a package that is not installed. Use the -r option to query the package repository, as follows:

$ pkg info -r amp
          Name: amp
       Summary: 
         State: Not installed (Renamed)
    Renamed to: web/amp@0.5.11-0.133
                consolidation/sfw/sfw-incorporation
     Publisher: solaris
       Version: 0.5.11
 Build Release: 5.11
        Branch: 0.133
Packaging Date: Wed Oct 27 18:31:05 2010
          Size: 0.00 B
          FMRI: pkg://solaris/amp@0.5.11,5.11-0.133:20101027T183105Z

          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: 0.175.1.0.0.24.0
Packaging Date: Tue Sep 04 18:03:28 2012
          Size: 5.46 kB
          FMRI: pkg://solaris/group/feature/amp@0.5.11,5.11-0.175.1.0.0.24.0:20120904T180328Z

          Name: web/amp
       Summary: 
         State: Not installed (Renamed)
    Renamed to: group/feature/amp@0.5.11-0.174.0.0.0.0.0
                consolidation/ips/ips-incorporation
     Publisher: solaris
       Version: 0.5.11
 Build Release: 5.11
        Branch: 0.174.0.0.0.0.0
Packaging Date: Wed Sep 21 19:15:02 2011
          Size: 5.45 kB
          FMRI: pkg://solaris/web/amp@0.5.11,5.11-0.174.0.0.0.0.0:20110921T191502Z

If you know the name of the tool that you want to install, but not the name of the package, use the search subcommand in one of the following ways:

$ pkg search /usr/bin/emacs
INDEX      ACTION VALUE         PACKAGE
path       file   usr/bin/emacs pkg:/editor/gnu-emacs@23.4-0.175.1.0.0.24.0
$ pkg search file::emacs
INDEX      ACTION VALUE                PACKAGE
basename   file   usr/share/info/emacs pkg:/editor/gnu-emacs@23.4-0.175.1.0.0.24.0
basename   file   usr/bin/emacs        pkg:/editor/gnu-emacs@23.4-0.175.1.0.0.24.0