Managing Application Catalog Databases - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

Managing Application Catalog
Databases
Edition • Application Manager is included with AdminStudio Professional and Enterprise Editions.
You use Application Manager to manage Application Catalog databases. Tasks you perform using the Application
Manager include importing packages, merging application catalogs, setting up automatic package import,
organizing packages into groups, and viewing a package's extended attributes, files/components, INI file changes,
registry entries, shortcuts, merge modules, history, and tables.
Information about using Application Catalogs is organized into the following sections:
Table 6-1 • Topics Regarding Using Application Catalogs
Section
Application Manager
and ConflictSolver
Managing Application
Catalogs
Importing Data
Using the Software
Repository
AdminStudio 9.5 User Guide
Description
Describes the functionality available using Application Manager and how it differs
from ConflictSolver.
Explains how to create, connect to, search for, organize, view information about,
and delete packages from.
Explains how to import Windows Installer packages (
transforms (
Marimba NCP files (
Edition • Import support for Marimba Native Channel Packager (.ncp) files is available in
AdminStudio Enterprise Edition.
Explains how to manage a software package's associated installation files using
the Software Repository.
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) or patches ( ), merge modules (
.mst .msp
), and other setup types.
.ncp
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with any associated
.msi)
), OS snapshots (
.msm .osc
),
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