Applying Updates to Your System

Update Manager can apply updates to your system.

If you use the smpatch add command to apply particular updates, it attempts to apply only those updates that you specified. The smpatch add command does not attempt to resolve update dependencies. If you want to apply an update that has a missing dependency, the update is not applied. You can use the smpatch analyze command or the smpatch update command to resolve update dependencies.

When you use the Update Manager GUI to apply updates that you selected from the list of updates, each update is downloaded (if necessary) before it is applied.

If you attempt to install a list of updates, Update Manager first performs an analysis to determine whether dependent updates must also be installed.