Software package management simplifies installing and updating software. Administration is simplified because the method for managing system software and third party applications is now consistent. The tools for creating software packages are in an application packaging tools library.
There are two tools you can use to install and remove packages:
You can install software on your local system or on a remote system with Admintool (started with the admintool command). The default location for the installation is the local system.
Use Admintool to:
Look at the software installed on the local system
Install or remove software on a local system
If you want to install or remove the software, you must run Admintool as superuser or as a user in the sysadmin group (group 14). You do not need to be superuser to look at the software packages that are already installed on a system.
You can use command-line utilities to install, remove, and check the installation of software packages. The commands are: