Which applications are installed

[rossco6]

Hopefully someone can help me!

I've inherited a Solaris server and am wondering what is the best way to find out which applications are installed on it.

If you assume I have little or no Solaris/Unix experience, you wont be far wrong!

Thanks

 

[SamBones]

Things installed on Solaris come in packages. The command [tt]pkginfo[/tt] will show you all of the installed packages. You can also do a "[tt]man pkginfo[/tt]" to find out about parameters you can give the command.

Hope this helps.

 

[daFranze]

as Sam writes, most Solaris SW is installed in packages, but there are some Applications (afaik Oracle) bring their own Installroutine and just unpack/copy files; these applications are hard to find/identify and there is just one best practise: the file /var/sadm/install/contents contains a list of files which are installed by pkgadd; if zou run find / -print you will get a list of all files on this host. Next step is: diff these lists and you will find out what is installed by copying/untaring

Best Regards, Franz
--
Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[rossco6]

That's great, thanks guys!