Location of software.

[Robert Vernon]

I have a list of software to be installed on several servers - my question is : What is the best/easiest way to find out where the software is located e.g. ACXX is the name of the software how can I find out which CD it is on ( APPLICATIONS CD 1 -5, SUPPORT PLUS CD etc.). I have a contents list for the Applications CD's but sometimes the software is part of a bundle so is not easily identified. Thank you in advance for any responses.

[Alex Lavrov.]

Copy all of them to the disk and with swinstall you can use find option or just use find command to find the files in that directory ...

[Thayanidhi]

Hi,

"swlist" lists the bundles and products which are not part of bundles. If a product is located under a bundle, then use "swlist -l product" You may pipe to "grep -i description"

Add -s switch to list from other locations (e.g. CDROM)

Hope this helps
Regds
TT

[Alex Lavrov.]

Btw, in GUI you can set the View property, so it will show you the products and not bundles.

[Ken Grabowski]

If your having trouble finding software in a depot and your not sure if itâ s in a bundle, product, or what ever, you can use the swlist command with the â -Râ option and pipe it through the grep command. This option will list all bundles, products, subproducts, and filesets in the source depot. Use grep â i to match your search string.

For example, to search for ACXX in multiple depots on an application disk mounted at /cdrom:

for DEPOT at $(ls -1 /cdrom)
do
swlist â d â R @ /cdrom/$DEPOT |\
grep â i ACXX
done

This for loop will look at all depots directly under the /cdrom mount point and print out all occurrences that match ACXX regardless of the ca

[Robert Vernon]

A mix of the responses obtained the answer to my question - the main problem was that some of the software was locked and so swinstall did not display it - thankyou to all who took the time to respond, it is much appreciated.