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Solaris package management

Updated 2 Apr 2004 Read time 39 sec(s) (2276 visits).

Solaris 8 uses a number of commands to manage software installed on the OS. This short cheat sheet provides the basic package management commands.

Updated 22 Apr 2008 Read time 37 sec(s) (2964 visits).

If you have a file and need to know the package that installed the file on the system then using pkgchk should help.

Updated 22 Apr 2008 Read time 1 min 11 sec(s) (3027 visits).

If you have a file and need to know the package that installed the file on the system then using pkgchk should help.

Updated 14 Dec 2010 Read time 1 min 16 sec(s) (2615 visits).

In the event of drastic file permission or ownership changes, it is possible to restore the original permissions of the file(s)