How to find the package which installed a file

August 25, 2009 · Filed Under General · Comment 

If you have a file and need to know the package that installed the file on the system then the following procedure using “pkgchk” should help.

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How to find files,directories,path,executables for packages

April 14, 2008 · Filed Under Package Management · Comment 


Sometimes you run into situations to try and understand where the files for your package that you just installed on your Sun Solaris Server. While this is no big deal for geeks lets help “not so geeks” with a way to find the files and path of installed package.

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Install & Run Sun VTS in Solaris 10 for hardware & Stress test

January 29, 2008 · Filed Under General, Package Management, Solaris 10, Sun X86 platform · Comment 

In my previous write up here, I wrote a brief description of the Sun VTS (Validation and Test Suite) which can help one to run tests on any Sun Supported hardware and hardware components and report the health status and identify faulty devices. Now, lets get installing and run Sun VTS in Solaris 10.

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