Hello Charles

Thanks for taking the time out to reply.

We have gone ahead with the installation where our new software is not
in the swlist and all is well. I don't know what the difference is
between the two systems but as long as it is working I am ok.

Cheers

Lee


Chuck Whealton wrote:
> Lee wrote:
> > So would I be right in thinking that installing and setting up software
> > outside of SD is ok?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Lee
> >
> >
> > Vishwas Pai wrote:
> > > Lee wrote:
> > > > The software was not installed using SD. Does HP application install
> > > > have to be? The software has its own installation wizard and seems to
> > > > install ok. There is nothing in the instructions to say use SD.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way of telling SD about these new applications which have
> > > > been installed.
> > >
> > > I don't think there is way letting SD know about non-SD
> > > packaged software.
> > >
> > > --vishwas.
>
> Lee, there are plenty of applications that use their own installation
> mechanisms. Two that come to mind are Oracle and Documentum.
> Documentum actually has an "installshield wizard", which I was shocked
> to see under UNIX.
>
> What one of the other posters was saying is that if you've done the
> identical installation on both machines, but only one of them actually
> shows the software in question via swlist, then somewhere in the
> background, your application's installation undoubtedly did call
> swinstall to get the job done. By contract, you won't see an Oracle or
> Documentum installation (mentioned above) using an swlist command
> because they don't use swinstall anywhere in their install process.
>
> I'd be wondering if there are any differences between your two systems,
> or if there's an installation log for your application that says what
> it's doing and if it was truly successful on the system that doesn't
> show it as being installed.
>
> Charles R. Whealton
> Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com