Choosing Subsystems To Install Or Remove - Silicon Graphics IRIS Indigo Owner's Manual

Chapter 5: Installing and Removing Software

Choosing Subsystems to Install or Remove

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When you are running inst, you can see all the subsystems that make up the products, and
check whether they have been selected for installation by typing:
list
You see one or more screenfuls of information.
• To see the next screen, press the
• To stop the listing, press
• To see the inst menu again, press
list displays a key to the listing, followed by the list of available subsystems. The first two
columns of the listing show:
• whether the available (usually newer) version of a subsystem is selected for
installation (i) or is not selected (k)
If you have a version of a subsystem already installed and you would like to
Note:
remove it while other software is being installed, you can select it for removal (r). See
also "Removing Optional Software" on page 107.
• whether you have already installed an older (X), newer (N), or identical (I) version
of a particular subsystem
Here are some samples of the first three columns of subsystem listings:
i X nfs.sw.nis
An older version (
and the newer version is selected for installation (
product (
k I pfa.sw.lib
An identical version (
installed, so inst assumes you want to keep (
version. It is part of the Power Fortran product (
k N insight.sw.client
A newer version (
installed, so inst assumes you want to keep (
version. It is part of the IRIS Insight product (
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) of this subsystem (
X
).
nfs
) of this subsystem (
I
) of this subsystem (
N
.
prompt.
) is already installed,
nfs.sw.nis
). It is part of the NFS
i
pfa.sw.lib
) the currently installed
k
).
pfa
insight.sw.client
) the currently installed
k
).
insight
) is already
) is already