On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:39:31AM -0800, Terence Ng wrote:
> I have just installed OpenSolaris 2008.05, and have
> pfexec pkg refresh
> pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg at 0.5.11-0.86
> pfexec pkg install entire at 0.5.11-0.86
>
> How come there is no response when I:
> pfexec pkg search SUNWapch22
>
> Do I have to install it to use the search command?
> Do I have to image-update to get Apache2.2?
"pkg search" operates only on installed packages. If you add the -r
option, it will perform the search on the depots indicated by your
authorities, so "pkg search -r SUNWapch22" should work.
Note that
- "pkg search" (with or without -r) doesn't require privilege, so the
pfexec is unnecessary
- "pkg list -a" will tell you about all packages your authorities know
about, and with an argument of one or more package names ("pkg list -a
SUNWapch22"), it'll tell you what versions it's available under.
You don't have to image-update in order to get Apache; you just have to
install it. Though I would recommend upgrading to the 2008.11 release
candidate anyway, as it's much better than what we had back in May.
Danek
