Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Administering a System: Managing Printers, Software, and Performance
Managing Software
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• Copy software from a distribution source or media onto a system.
• Verify compatibility of software products with your system.
• Create software packages that make later software installations
quicker and easier.
• Configure installed software.
For a list of SD-UX commands, see Table 7-7, “SD-UX Command
Summary,” on page 716.
SD-UX Software Structure
SD-UX commands work on a hierarchy of software objects. Here are the
terms used to describe the SD-UX objects.
Bundles Collections of filesets, possibly from several different
products, encapsulated by HP for a specific purpose.
Only HP can create bundles and all HP-UX 10.x and
11.x operating system software is packaged in bundles.
Example of a bundle is:
HPUXEngCR700 B.11.00 English HP-UX CDE Runtime
Environment
Products Collections of subproducts (optional) and filesets. The
SD-UX commands focus on products but still allow you
to specify subproducts and filesets.
Example of a product is:
Networking B.10.20 HP-UX_10.0_LanLink_Product
Subproducts Groups of logically related filesets within a product if
the product contains several filesets.
Examples of subproducts are:
Networking.Runtime
Networking.MinimumRuntime
Filesets Files and control scripts that make up a product. This
is the smallest manageable (selectable) SD-UX
software object. Filesets are only part of a single
product but could be included in several different
HP-UX bundles, and more than one subproduct.