Solaris 10 which package do I need

In Solaris 11 package management got a lot better and is almost as good as APT in the Linux world. In Solaris 10 not so much. A lot of times I find myself comparing systems and trying to track down which package I need for a specific binary. The pkgchk command can help here:

Example:

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# pkgchk -l -p /usr/bin/pdftops
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Pathname: /usr/bin/pdftops
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Type: regular file
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Expected mode: 0755
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Expected owner: root
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Expected group: other
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Expected file size (bytes): 22316
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Expected sum(1) of contents: 15618
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Expected last modification: May 17 22:40:06 2012
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Referenced by the following packages:
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        SUNWevince
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Current status: installed

And of course install from CDROM as follow.

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# pkgadd -d /mnt/Solaris_10/Product/ SUNWevince

Be warned here your nightmare starts when the package management starts pointing out all the dependencies.