Shawn, >>You're using a fairly old version of the package system from November of >>last year.
Hmm, I installed OpenSolaris 11/2008 and did one image update (Well, I think so ... I'm still not confortable with the new packaging system and the new wording) $ beadm list BE Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created -- ------ ---------- ----- ------ ------- opensolaris - - 9.61M static 2009-04-12 22:59 opensolaris-1 NR / 8.03G static 2009-04-17 20:31 $ uname -a SunOS t61p 5.11 snv_101b i86pc i386 i86pc >>Also, from the error, it looks like the catalog you received from a >>package server is corrupt. By chance, are you trying to retrieve a >>catalog from the jucr repositories? What is a "jucr repository"? >>What's the output of "pkg authority" ? It's now (after I removed the contrib repository; see the update to my first posting) [xtrnaw7 at t61p Sat Apr 18 22:28:26 ~ ] $ pkg authority AUTHORITY URL opensolaris.org (preferred) http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release/ regards Bernd -- This message posted from opensolaris.org