Show applied patches or check for a specific patch in Solaris

Contributor Icon Contributed by qmchenry Date Icon October 2, 2003  
Tag Icon Tagged: Solaris system administration

Some applications require a specific set of patches in order to function properly. To list the applied patches or to dertermine the presence of a specific patch, use the showrev command.


To list all patches applied to the system, run:

showrev -p

Output of this command can be piped to another application like more which will display the output one page at a time:

showrev -p | more

To look for the existence of a specific patch, you can pipe the output to grep and search for a patch-id pattern. If you require a specific patch like 113964-09, it is advisable to search for the base id 113964. The -09 following the base id is the version of the patch. To look for the existence and version of patch 113964, run:

showrev -p | grep 113964

Read through the results carefully since the output includes other patch-ids associated with the patch. Most of the time, software requires that the version of the applied patch be equal to or greater than the one specified. Refer to the documentation of the software for specific requirements.

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    <font color="green">patchadd -p</font>
    <font color="#444444">is an alternative to showrev -p if the SUNWadmc package is not installed on the system</font>
    <font color="green">showrev -p | sed -e 's/Obsoletes.*Pack/Pack/g' | grep 112233</font>
    <font color="#444444">This command will trim the output to only the patch you are looking for instead of grabbing the patch in the Requires and Obsoletes fields</font>
 
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