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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Tape Depot Software in a tape depot is formatted as a tar archive.
Tape depots such as cartridge tapes, DAT and 9-track
tape are referred to by the file system path to the tape
drive’s device file.
A tape depot can only be created by using swpackage
and it cannot be verified or modified with SD-UX
commands. You cannot copy software (using swcopy)
directly to a tape; use swpackage for this operation.
Software in a tape depot may be installed directly on a
local host, but must first be transferred to a directory
depot before it can be “pulled” by other hosts on the
network. A tape depot can be accessed by only one
command at a time.
NOTE If you administer software for workstations and servers, you should
create separate depots for each.
SD-UX Tasks
SD-UX commands can be executed from the command line. However,
SD-UX provides a graphical and terminal user interface for the
commonly used commands: swinstall, swcopy, swremove, and on 11.x,
swlist -i.
The most common SD-UX tasks are:
• swinstall. See “Adding Software” on page 717
• swlist. See “Listing Software” on page 720
• swremove. See “Removing Software” on page 721
The following table shows lists some of the other SD-UX functions.
Table 7-7 SD-UX Command Summary
Command Purpose
swinstall Install software
swremove Remove software