PKG
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 22 May 2007
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NAME
pkg - software package maintenance tool.
SYNOPSIS
pkg [ install, remove, upgrade, info,
search, sync ] [ pkgname ]
DESCRIPTION
pkg is the package utility which is
capable of high-level maintainence of packages by package name
instead of by file. pkg provides very basic
functionalities of installing, removing, and upgrading packages.
ACTIONS
pkg provides the following actions that
the system administrator can utilize:
- install
- Installs the provided packages and any dependencies from
available repositories.
- remove
- Removes installed packages from the system that correspond
to the packages provided on the command-line
- upgrade
- Upgrades any installed packages on the system which pair
with more recent versions on available repositories.
- info
- Displays package information on packages matching the names
supplied to the command-line. If no installed packages can be
found that match, then the available repositories will be
searched.
- search
- Searches available repositories for any package that
matches the search string.
- sync
- Determines if any packages need to be upgraded, and then
proceeds to upgrade them with the latest versions.
AUTHOR
Bradley A. Worley <geekysuavo@gmail.com>
SEE ALSO
buildpkg(8), explodepkg(8), infopkg(8), installpkg(8), makepkg(8), removepkg(8), servepkg(8), upgradepkg(8)
Index
- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- ACTIONS
- AUTHOR
- SEE ALSO
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