Downloading Patches to Your System

Before you apply patches to your system, you must download the patches that you want from the Sun patch server to that system.

You can download patches from the Sun patch server based on an analysis of the system, or you can specify particular patches to download.

You cannot use the Patch Manager browser interface to just download patches. When you select patches from the list of patches and click Apply or Apply All, the patches you specified are both downloaded and applied. To just download patches, use the smpatch download command.