Useful commands

The following list includes useful commands to manage packages. Replace <pkg> with pkg64c to execute a command in the context of CheriABI packages and with pkg64 in the context of hybrid ABI packages.

Most pkg commands have separate man pages describing them. For a command <pkg> foo, you can read its man page by executing man pkg-foo on a CheriBSD host.

• List available package manager commands:

  <pkg> help
  

• Read more information on a package manager command:

  <pkg> help <command>
  

• Search a package repository:

  <pkg> search <pattern>
  

• Search a package repository and display full information:

  <pkg> search --full <pattern>
  

• List installed packages:

  <pkg> info
  

• Display information for an installed package:

  <pkg> info <pkg-name>
  

• Install a package:

  <pkg> install <pkg-name>
  

• Delete a package:

  <pkg> delete <pkg-name>
  

• Delete packages that are no longer required:

  <pkg> autoremove
  

• Check a new package version for an installed package:

  <pkg> upgrade -n <pkg-name>
  

• Check new package versions for all installed packages:

  <pkg> upgrade -n
  

• Upgrade a package after confirmation:

  <pkg> upgrade <pkg-name>
  

• Upgrade all packages after confirmation:

  <pkg> upgrade
  

• Display which package installed a file:

  <pkg> which /path/to/file
  

• Check a number of installed packages:

  <pkg> stats -l
  

• Check a number of available packages:

  <pkg> stats -r