On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 02:19 +0000, Karl Dalen wrote: > One feature that would be nice in IPS would be some way of finding out > what > package does a program or file belong to. Maybe there is and I've > missed it. > I sometimes find it hard to figure out what packages I need to install > for a > certain program.
You're in luck, because there is such a feature, the pkg search subcommand. Use "-r" to search the repository for a package that contains a given token. For example, "pkg search -r gnome-terminal". You'll notice that "pkg search -r dtterm" indicates that /usr/dt/bin/dtterm isn't in the OpenSolaris IPS repository. That's no accident. It depends on Motif (as much of CDE does), which isn't redistributable. -Seb
