Solview
Solview is a graphical utility to display useful information about a
computer running the Solaris operating system.
The information shown includes:
- Installed Software, including patches
- Services
- General information about the system
Additionally, if solview is invoked with the full path to a Solaris
installation image (the Product directory), then it can show details
about the software in that installation image.
Toolbar
The toolbar contains a small number of menus.
- File - allows you to exit solview, and launch a second copy of the
window.
- Tools - allows you to launch other utilities that show information
about your system.
- Dependencies - lets you evaluate the package dependencies fully
(including all those packages that depend on a given package) for
a Solaris distribution. This will add an extra information panel to the
right-hand pane, showing dependant packages. (Evaluating these
dependencies can take a little while, especially on removable media,
which is why it isn't done by default.)
- Help - shows this help file.
Bugs
The file browser gets confused by directories that are symbolic
links - for example /bin - so that it treats everything under such a
symlink as unpackaged.