Hanna noname wrote: > i have a snv_127 opensolaris (->dev repository) installation and i want > to install the package SUNWxvnc, but i can't. it isn't in the > dev-repository, but in the "release".
It's in both -- in general, the /dev repo is a superset of the /release repo. > whenn i try to install it from there i get the error: > > "the following pattern(s) did not match any package in the current > catalog. try relaxing the pattern, refreshing and/or examining the > catalogs: pkg://release/SUNWxvnc. > > i don't know why. i tried to deaktivate the dev-repository but it didn't > changed something. Note that you shouldn't have both the /dev repo and the /release repo configured at the same time. What's the output of "pkg publisher"? What happens if you run "pkg install SUNWxvnc" from the commandline? > PS: why is the packagemanager so tricky/complex? i never had such strange > problems (slow, strange depends (for example there a packages who say > that there are other packages who need them, but they are not installed)) Can you give such an example? Possibly with the output of "pkg uninstall foo"? Danek
