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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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swmtool — Install, Upgrade, and Remove Software Packages

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/swmtool [-d directory]

Description

The swmtool command is a link to the admintool(1M) command. You can use the swmtool command to invoke the admintool(1M) application, which is preselected to display only the software portion of the AdminTool window. Using the swmtool command, you can add software from a product CD or hard disk to an installed system, or you can remove software from an installed system.

Once logged in, you can run swmtool to examine the packages on your local system.

Membership in the sysadmin group (gid 14) is used to restrict access to administrative tasks. Members of the sysadmin group can use swmtool to add or remove software packages. Nonmembers ...

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