how may I know whether a program is installed or not?

xpucto · 01-16-2007, 05:29 AM

I have solaris 10.
I would like to know if wget installed is, but neither locate nor whereis seem to be installed.
how is one supposed to know if one program is already installed?

Broder · 01-16-2007, 06:05 AM

You could try which

pwc101 · 01-16-2007, 06:12 AM

I think I read on a thread here yesterday that wget isn't installed in Solaris by default, and that fetch is an alternative which is installed. Might be wrong though

neil · 01-16-2007, 06:15 AM

type this

# type wget

To see what this does do
# type ls

Dirty way of finding it. (dont do this on production systems)
# find / | grep wget

bathory · 01-16-2007, 07:54 AM

You can use pkginfo:

Code:

pkginfo|grep -i wget

Dox Systems - Brian · 01-16-2007, 08:09 AM

"find / -name wget" works too. You should find it under /usr/sfw/bin in the default install.

jlliagre · 01-16-2007, 08:36 AM

Or faster:

Code:

grep -w wget /var/sadm/install/contents

xpucto · 01-17-2007, 09:30 AM

thanks a lot the replies!

wget is installed (/usr/sfw/bin). but why aren't they wget entries in the manpages then? How can I change this?
when I give

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grep -w wget /var/sadm/install/content

it says:

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/usr/sfw/share/man/man1/wget.1 f none 0444 root bin 59496 19741 1105179227 SUNWsfman

and when I give

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grep -w md5sum /var/sadm/install/contents

, it gives me

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/usr/bin/gst-md5sum f none 0755 root other 12260 13175 1103148915 SUNWgnome-media
/usr/bin/gst-md5sum-0.8 f none 0755 root other 12204 50514 1103148916 SUNWgnome-media
/usr/share/man/sman1/gst-md5sum-0.8.1 f none 0755 root other 9167 53155 1103152338 SUNWgnome-media-share
/usr/share/man/sman1/gst-md5sum.1 f none 0755 root other 227 16315 1103152338 SUNWgnome-media-share

what does this all mean?
thanks.

mackdav · 01-17-2007, 10:53 AM

The manpages are probably not in your manpath.

Try:

export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/sfw/man

jlliagre · 01-17-2007, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xpucto

what does this all mean?

"man contents" will tell you.

xpucto · 01-19-2007, 05:29 AM

thanks for the help.

xpucto · 01-19-2007, 07:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mackdav

The manpages are probably not in your manpath.

Try:

export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/sfw/man

thank you! it works now.