Importing A Virtual Package Without Its Source Windows Installer Package; Manually Associating A Virtual Package With A Windows Installer Package - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

Importing a Virtual Package Without Its Source Windows Installer
Package
You can import a virtual package into the Application Catalog even if you have not yet imported its source Windows
Installer package. If you then import the virtual package's source Windows Installer package at a later date, you
can use the Associate Package function in Application Manager to manually associate them.
Task: To import a virtual package by itself:
1. Open Application Manager.
2. Connect to your chosen Application Catalog.
3. On the Catalog menu, select Import Package. The Welcome panel of the Import Wizard opens.
4. Click Next. The File Selection panel opens.
5. Click Browse and select the virtual package that you want to import:
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Microsoft App-V
•
VMware ThinApp
• Citrix
6. Click Next. The Summary panel opens.
7. Click Finish to begin the import. The virtual package is imported and it will not have an association to a
Windows Installer package in the Application Catalog.

Manually Associating a Virtual Package with a Windows Installer Package

You can use the Import Wizard to import a virtual package directly into the Application Catalog even if you have not
yet imported its source Windows Installer package. If you then import the virtual package's source Windows
Installer package at a later date, you can use the Associate Package function in Application Manager to manually
associate the virtual package with its source package.
Caution •
Associate Package function to associate it with any Windows Installer package in the Application Catalog, even
one that is not its source package. Therefore, it is preferable to use the Import Wizard to import both the Windows
Installer and virtual packages at the same time so that AdminStudio can create the proper associations.
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application—Select the App-V file with an
application—Select the ThinApp file with an
profile—Select the Citrix file with a
After you have imported a virtual package into the Application Catalog, you are permitted to use the
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