SCO OpenServer Handbook
Chapter 4, Installing and managing software components

The Software Manager interface

The Software Manager interface




NOTE: If you start the Software Manager and the License Manager one right after the other, the Software Manager menus may not respond. To work around this problem, re-invoke the Software Manager.

You can start the Software Manager in any of these ways:

To run the Software Manager, you must have root or sysadmin authorization.

For more information on using SCOadmin managers, see ``Administering your system with SCOadmin''.

Figure 4-1, ``The Software Manager'' shows the main window for the Software Manager and defines the symbols that mark the available software. (Most of the symbols are based on a picture of a CD-ROM.) The figure is missing one symbol: a broken disk, indicating that the software became corrupted during or after installation. 

Figure 4-1 The Software Manager