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pkgadd - transfer software package to the system
pkgadd
[ -n ] [ -a admin ] [ -d device ] [ -R root_path ] [ -r response ] [ pkginst1
[ pkginst2 ] ...]
pkgadd -s spool [ -d device ] [ pkginst1 [ pkginst2 ] ... ]]
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pkgadd transfers the contents of a software
package from the distribution medium or directory to install it onto the
system. Used without the -d option, pkgadd looks in the default spool directory
for the package (/var/spool/pkg). Used with the -s option, it reads the package
to a spool directory instead of installing it.
Certain unbundled and third-party
packages are no longer entirely compatible with the latest version of
pkgadd . These packages require user interaction throughout the installation
and not just at the very beginning.
To install these older packages (released
prior to Solaris 2.4), set the following environment variable:
NONABI_SCRIPTS=TRUE
pkgadd will permit keyboard interaction throughout the installation as
long as this environment variable is set.
- -n
- Installation occurs in
non-interactive mode. The default mode is interactive.
- -a admin
- Define an
installation administration file, admin, to be used in place of the default
administration file. The token none overrides the use of any admin file,
and thus forces interaction with the user. Unless a full path name is given,
pkgadd first looks in the current working directory for the administration
file. If the specified administration file is not in the current working
directory, pkgadd looks in the /var/sadm/install/admin directory for
the administration file.
- -d device
- Install or copy a package from device.
device can be a full path name to a directory or the identifiers for
tape, floppy disk or removable disk (for example, /var/tmp or /floppy/floppy_name
). It can also be a device alias (for example, /floppy/floppy0).
- -R root_path
- Define the full path name of a subdirectory to use as the root_path. All
files, including package system information files, are relocated to a directory
tree starting in the specified root_path.
- -r response
- Identify a file or
directory which contains output from a previous pkgask session. This file
supplies the interaction responses that would be requested by the package
in interactive mode. response must be a full pathname.
- -s spool
- Reads the
package into the directory spool instead of installing it.
- pkginst
- Specify the package instance or list of instances to be installed.
The token all may be used to refer to all packages available on the source
medium. The format pkginst.* can be used to indicate all instances of a
package.
When executed without options, pkgadd uses /var/spool/pkg (the
default spool directory).
The following example installs a package
from a Solaris CD-ROM. You are prompted for the name of the package you want
to install.
example% pkgadd -d /cdrom/solaris_2_3/s0/Solaris_2.3
The
following error values are returned:
- Successful completion.
- >0
- An error occurred.
pkginfo(1)
, pkgmk(1)
, pkgparam(1)
, pkgproto(1)
, pkgtrans(1)
, installf(1M)
,
pkgask(1M)
, pkgrm(1M)
, removef(1M)
, admin(4)
When transferring a package to a spool directory, the -r,
-n, and -a options cannot be used.
The -r option can be used to indicate a
directory name as well as a filename. The directory can contain numerous
response files, each sharing the name of the package with which it should
be associated. This would be used, for example, when adding multiple interactive
packages with one invocation of pkgadd.
Each package would need a response
file. If you create response files with the same name as the package (that
is, pkinst1 and pkinst2), then name the directory in which these files
reside after the -r.
The -n option causes the installation to halt if any
interaction is needed to complete it.
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