Installing Software - Novell ZENWORKS LINUX MANAGEMENT 7.2 IR2 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 09-25-2008 Administration Manual

Selecting and Applying Updates
When updates are available, the panel icon changes to an orange circle with an exclamation mark in
it. When you mouse over the icon, a message pops up indicating that updates are available.
To review and apply updates:
1 Click the Software Updater icon.
If the Software Updater icon is not in the system tray, you need to launch the program. See
"Launching the Software Updater" on page
2 Select the updates you want to apply.
Click Details for more information about the selected update.
NOTE: To poll the services for updates, right-click the Software Updater icon, and then click
Refresh.
3 (Optional) If you do not want to view the change summary information, select Do not show the
change summary screen. By default, this option is not selected.
4 Click Update.
If you chose to view the change summary information in
blinks when the change summary screen is displayed.

6.3.2 Installing Software

Using ZENworks Linux Management, your administrator can create catalogs containing optional
software and assign them to users' devices. Because software packages contained in catalogs are
usually considered optional, users can choose whether or not to install the software. If an
administrator has assigned catalogs to users' devices, the catalogs display in the Software Installer.
"Configuring Package Sources" on page 59
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Step 3, the software updater icon