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

Administering a System: Managing Printers, Software, and Performance
Managing Software
Chapter 7718
• products
• filesets
To select an item, move the cursor to the bundle and press Return or
Space. You can select one or more items and mark them for installation.
To see all subsets belonging to a bundle or product, choose Open. You can
do this when only one item is selected.
To see a description of the item (if there is one), select the item and
choose Show Description Of Software.
To update all parts of your operating system with new software found on
the update media, select Match What Target Has.
NOTE By default, swinstall does not reinstall filesets if the same revision
already exists on your system. If you want to reinstall the same revision
(for example if some files are lost), you can change the installation
options by choosing Options/Change Option.
Installing a product or a fileset may automatically install dependent
filesets necessary to run the selected item(s).
Step 5. Choose Action/Install (analysis) to start the installation process.
The installation process is divided into four phases:
Install Analysis Checks dependencies, verifies that all files can be
installed correctly and defines the sequence of
installation so that, for example, only one kernel
rebuild should be necessary even if there are more
filesets which require a new kernel.
Execution Phase Performs preinstall tasks if necessary and installs
filesets.
Post_install Performs post-installation activities, such as rebuilding
of kernel and system reboot.