How to find what packages (software’s) installed?
1)Run the command pkginfo to find the information:
# pkginfo | more
2) Note that packages provided by SUN always have prefix SUNWpkgname
3 To find more about SSH Software’s:
# pkginfo | grep "SSH"
4) To print all available information about package (long format aka package description):
# pkginfo -l SUNWsshcu
Verify the package contents
1)You can use the command pkgchk as follows:
# pkgchk -l SUNWzip | more
How to verify that package installed successfully?
# pkgchk -v SUNWzip | more
OR
# pkgchk
If you run above command and something is missing then you will get on screen error:
# pkgchk -v SUNWzip | more
/usr
/usr/bin
ERROR: /usr/bin/zip
pathname does not exist
/usr/bin/zipcloak
/usr/bin/zipnote
/usr/bin/zipsplit
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