Hello, is there a command or anything else, that can query the system (AIX
5L) in order to know which software is installed ?
Using 'lslpp' just returns system packages, system fixes, apar's, but not
external apps (like SAP, Oracle, ecc.) ... on the contrary, how can I get
such informations ?

"Fabio" <fabio.emidi@tiscali.it> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Hello, is there a command or anything else, that can query the system (AIX
> 5L) in order to know which software is installed ?
> Using 'lslpp' just returns system packages, system fixes, apar's, but not
> external apps (like SAP, Oracle, ecc.) ... on the contrary, how can I get
> such informations ?
>
>

No ideas, guys ???

Fabio wrote:
> > Hello, is there a command or anything else, that can query the system (AIX
> > 5L) in order to know which software is installed ?
>
> No ideas, guys ???

lslpp only lists software installed in installp-packeges, oracle uses
its own packaging scheme. I guess there's no "official" way to find ALL
the installed software on a machine other than having a look yourself.

Actually, you might just untar some software. How is any program going
to find out that you expanded a tar?

Regards,
Andre Naumann

> lslpp only lists software installed in installp-packeges, oracle uses
...
$ lslpp -L
will list all installed packages ( lpp,rpms,is... )

hth
Hajo

Hajo Ehlers wrote:
> > lslpp only lists software installed in installp-packeges, oracle uses
> ..
> $ lslpp -L
> will list all installed packages ( lpp,rpms,is... )

Ok, I forgot about RPMs which got into AIX lately.. I almost wrote
"only lists IBM supplied software", but that wouldn't include the
freeware packages from Bull for example.

But I doubt, it'll list Oracle and other software coming with a
packaging system completely unrelated to AIX. People offering software
for a lot of differnt platforms tend to build installers that work on
many platforms and do not rely on the underlying software management
software.

Even though it shouldn't be too difficult to built RPMs from almost
everything..

Regards,
Andre Naumann

"Andre Naumann" <usenet-200601@SPARCed.org> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Hajo Ehlers wrote:
> > > lslpp only lists software installed in installp-packeges, oracle uses
> > ..
> > $ lslpp -L
> > will list all installed packages ( lpp,rpms,is... )
>
> Ok, I forgot about RPMs which got into AIX lately.. I almost wrote
> "only lists IBM supplied software", but that wouldn't include the
> freeware packages from Bull for example.
>
> But I doubt, it'll list Oracle and other software coming with a
> packaging system completely unrelated to AIX. People offering software
> for a lot of differnt platforms tend to build installers that work on
> many platforms and do not rely on the underlying software management
> software.
>
> Even though it shouldn't be too difficult to built RPMs from almost
> everything..
>
> Regards,
> Andre Naumann
>

Ok, thanks to you all.
It is what I suspected, after all.
Anyway, I am not interested in finding ANY software installed ... rather I
need to know MAIN applications running on my system, whose installation is
platform-specific (oracle, sap, ecc.).
From this point of view, it is not really a great thing that there is
nothing similar to a common repository where SUCH products could just add a
line in a database (for instance), or in a file, or even an ODM object, that
one could easily query for future use.