Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Introduction to Software Distributor
Using the GUI and TUI Commands
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Using the GUI and TUI Commands
The swinstall, swcopy, swlist, swremove commands each provide a
Graphical User Interface and Terminal User Interface. Advantages of
the GUI/TUI include:
• You can quickly create and visually monitor software management
tasks interactively
• You can easily analyze the effects of tasks and retry tasks that fail.
• You do not have to be familiar with a broad range of defaults, options,
software selections, and other variables that are required to enter
complex commands on the command line.
(Additional GUI interfaces are available if you have enabled remote
operations. See Chapter 6, “Remote Operations Overview,” on page 189.)
The Terminal User Interface
The terminal user interface lets you use the SD-UX GUI capabilities on
systems with text-based terminals. With the TUI, you use the
Arrow, Tab,
Space, and Return keys to navigate.
Figure 1-3 The Terminal User Interface (TUI)