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

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