swinstall preview

[Donald Thaler]

when i run swintall with the -p option it goes into the gui, if I were to select install from the action drop down menu would the application just give me a log of what would happen or would it acutually attempt to do the install??

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure about the GUI, but according to the man page the '-p' will run the swinstall process through the Analysis phase only.

So, in the GUI, even without the '-p', when you select INSTALL from the actions menu it will always do the analysis first. If that is all you want to do you can always select 'cancel' to not do the actual installation.

[Paul Sperry]

in the GUI when you click actions==> Install..it analysis first when it's done you can click on the logfile button to see the preview. If you hit OK it will start the install hit cancel and it wont install

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Donald:

In an interactive 'swinstall' session, regardless of whether or not you launch it with the '-p' option, you still have the ability to commit or not to an actual install.

That is, you have the ability to puruse the analyais and/or disk space panels and chose *not* to actually perform the installation.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Mark Greene_1]

It you really don't want the GUI, you can always unset DISPLAY and then you'll not get the Xwindows disply. However, if you don't specificy software to install, you'll get the ascii-based interactive interface which works simlar to the Xwindows interface.

mark

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

If you don't want to see GUI, add name of the installed program as a parameter, e.g:

swlist -s /users/Patches/11.00/glance11
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "argus"...
#
# Target: argus:/users/Patches/11.00/glance11
#

#
# Bundle(s):
#

B3693AA C.02.30.000 HP GlancePlus/UX for s800 11.00

So now, run
swinstall -p -s /users/Patches/11.00/glance11 B3693AA

HTH