Welcome to the pkgutil site

This is the official site for pkgutil, the easy to use, yet fully featured, installation tool for Solaris CSW packages.

Pkgutil, written in Perl and licensed under GPL, is a tool to make installation of packages in Solaris easier. It handles package dependencies so all required packages are installed before the desired package automatically. This is based on functionality present in apt-get (Debian Linux).

Current stable version is 1.8.

News

• 2009-11-24 pkgutil v1.9 is getting ever closer. See the release history for more info

• 2009-11-10 I'm getting a few reports of users getting hit with false positives regarding the loop protection. Apparently my default limit of 25000 is too low when you want to install/update many complex packages. Raise it to something like 250000. It's not bad to have a high number, it's only in the case of a real cyclic dependency it will take pkgutil a little longer to bail out

• 2009-10-09 You can now join the wiki to help document pkgutil. Some pages are getting quite old, like the install and use pages for example

• 2009-10-07 A year has gone by since the first release :-)

• 2009-09-23 pkgutil is now tracked at Ohloh

• 2009-06-29 Remember that you at any time can get the most current version of pkgutil directly from the Sourceforge repository. Normally you just have to download and replace (/opt/csw/bin/)pkgutil itself but you can also check if other files have changed. Here's a link to the repository: http://pkgutil.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pkgutil/trunk/

• 2009-03-27 I have created a mailing list for pkgutil users to ask questions, share ideas and more. See https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pkgutil-users. Please use this list first for issues with pkgutil itself, Blastwave and OpenCSW really only package pkgutil and shouldn't get support requests for the software :-)

• 2009-03-08 FAQ page added

• 2009-01-27 pkgutil is now a registered project at Sourceforge