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Solaris 8 Installation Supplement

Solaris Product Registry 3.0

This section supplements "Adding and Removing Software With the Product Registry" in Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Installation Guide and "Adding and Removing Software With the Product Registry" in Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Installation Guide.

A new version of the Solaris Product Registry tool has been released in the Solaris 8 1/01 release. You can access the Product Registry by using the command /usr/bin/prodreg. The Solaris Product Registry 3.0 includes these new features:

Uninstalling Individual Packages

You can now use the Solaris Product Registry 3.0 graphical user interface to uninstall individual system packages or clusters of system packages.

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When you select which packages to uninstall, you need to know about software dependencies and how Solaris software is packaged. If package dependency information is available, the Solaris Product Registry 3.0 tool displays a warning when you attempt to uninstall a package that is required by another package.

System Software Localizations Folder

In the Software installed in Solaris Registry list in the Solaris 8 System Software folder, you will find the new System Software Localizations folder. This folder contains a complete list of Solaris system software products that were installed in their localized version. You can uninstall these individual system packages or clusters of packages.

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If your system has only the English locale installed, the Solaris Product Registry 3.0 does not display the System Software Localization folder.

More Installation Wizards

Software applications that use Solaris Web Start WizardsTM versions 3.0 and 2.0 application programing interfaces (APIs) for installation now display in the Software installed in Solaris Registry list. In the previous version of the Solaris Product Registry, only applications that used Solaris Web Start Wizards 2.0 APIs appeared in the list.

If you installed applications that used Solaris Web Start Wizards 3.0 APIs before you installed the Solaris 8 1/01 release, these applications now appear in the Software installed in Solaris Registry list.