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# 1  
Old 04-13-2005
Registry analogous in Solaris
Hi,

May seem to be an absurd question, still.

As we have registry in Windows which keeps track of what is installed and where,
what is its analogous thing in Solaris.
Is this same in all Unix flavours or different.
# 2  
Old 04-13-2005
Unix has no system registry like windows does. You use files to configure your applications.
# 3  
Old 04-13-2005
if you want to check what's installed ... do "pkginfo"

if you want to find out where the files are installed ... do "pkgchk -v pkg_name"

see "man pkginfo" and related commands ...
# 4  
Old 04-18-2005
Thanks,

I was looking for something like that.

The confusion that i am facing is that, lets say i have a software named "A" installed at the path "/a/b/A".

Now a new patch comes up and i run it from the root ( / ) directory, still it updates the software at "/a/b/A".

How does the patch know that the software is installed at this location.
# 5  
Old 04-18-2005
they are also listed with the packages' pkgmap file ... the file tells the package where to install the files, directories, links, etc. ... see "man pkgmap" for more info ...
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