Software Distributor Administration Guide HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3 (5900-2561, March 2013)

3 Managing Installed Software
This chapter presents an overview of managing non-depot software after you have installed it. The
swlist, swmodify, and swremove commands help you perform these software management
tasks:
Table 11 Chapter Topics
Topics:
“Listing Your Software (swlist)” (page 63)
“Modifying the IPD (swmodify)” (page 74)
“Removing Installed Software (swremove)” (page 78)
3.1 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.
3.1.1 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.
3.1.2 Using the swlist GUI
The swlist -i command starts a swlist GUI program that lets you interactively list software
and display software information. The swlist -i -d command lets you display information
about the software available in a depot or on a physical media.
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