Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Managing Installed Software
Listing Your Software (swlist)
Chapter 396
Listing Your Software (swlist)
The swlist command creates customizable listings of the software
products installed on your local host or stored in depots for later
distribution.
swlist Features and Limitations
With swlist you can:
• Use an optional GUI.
• Specify the level (bundles, products, subproducts, filesets or files) to
show in your list.
• Specify a set of software attributes to display for each level. Software
attributes are items of information about products contained in the
Installed Products Database or in catalog files. These items can
include the product’s name or tag, its size (in Kbytes), revision
number, etc.
• Create a list of products, subproducts or filesets to use as input to the
swinstall or swremove commands.
• Display a table of contents for a software source.
• Display selected software attributes for each level.
• Show the product structure of software selections.
• List software stored in an alternate root directory.
• Display the depots on a specified host.
• List the categories of available or applied patches.
• List the values of a fileset’s applied patches.