Solaris Product Registry

The Solaris Product Registry enables you to do the following:

  • View a list of installed and registered software and some software attributes

  • Find and launch an installer

  • Install additional software products

  • Uninstall software

The main difference between the Product Registry and the other tools is that the Product Registry is designed to be compatible with more of the newer installation wizards and Web Start 3.0.

To start up the Solaris Product Registry, type the following:

/usr/bin/prodreg 

The Product Registry window shown in Figure 12.8 appears.

Figure 12.8. The Product Registry window.

To view the contents of the ...

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