Installation and maintenance of AIX software

1. AIX Software Products

2, the composition of the software package

A complete LPP consisting of one or more package. A LPP is a complete software product that contains all the package associated with this LPP.

A software package is a separately installed mirror consisting of a set of file sets that have a common set of functions.

The set of files is the smallest installable in the AIX operating system that can implement specific functional units.

3, Software bundle

A software bundle is a collection of packages and sets of files for a particular environment

Predefined system software bundles in Aix v5,2:

Alldeviceskernels

Alt_disk_install

App-dev

Cc_eval.docservices

Cc_eval.graphics

Cde

Docservices

Gnome

Graphics

Http_server

Kde

Kerberos_5

media-defined

Netscape

Server

Devices

Openssh_client

Openssh_server

Wsm_remote

There are thousands of file sets in the system, and it's a time-consuming task to install what you need in the system. The software bundle (Bundle) in Aix is a list of file sets that contain the set of files, package, and LPP for a particular purpose. If you want to develop the application, you can choose App-dev Software Bundle installation.