Sometimes you run into situations to try and understand where the files for your package that you just installed on your Sun Solaris Server. While this is no big deal for geeks lets help “not so geeks” with a way to find the files and path of installed package.

 Here, on Sun Solaris 10, I know I’ve installed wget package and don’t have a clue where the files have gone into. Let’s start with finding the package name.

solaris10#  pkginfo -l | grep wget

   PKGINST:  SUNWwgetr
      NAME:  GNU wget – utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web (root)
      DESC:  GNU wget – a utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web (root components) 1.9.1
   PKGINST:  SUNWwgetu
      NAME:  wget – GNU wget
      DESC:  GNU wget – a utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web (Usr) 1.9.1

Now, that will help you fi