Understanding these terms and conventions can help you
take full advantage of the installation information and your product.
These
terms are used in the installation topics.
- Admin user
- A user who has "write" administrative privileges. In the context
of installing, having write administrative privileges means that the
user can write to the default common installation location. On Linux operating
systems, the "root" or any user who is using "sudo" to start Installation
Manager has these privileges. On Microsoft Windows XP, a user with write administrative
privileges is any user who is a member of the "Administrators" group.
On Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7
or Microsoft Server 2008, the user who is
using "Run As Administrator" to start Installation Manager has these
privileges.
- Extension
- A type of product package that provides additional function to
another product package. You cannot install the extension without
also installing the package that it extends.
- Installation directory
- The location of product artifacts after the package is installed.
- Non-admin user
- A user who is not an admin user.
- Package
- An installable unit of a software product. Software product packages
are separately installable units that can operate independently from
other packages of that software product.
- Package group
- A package group represents a directory in which different product
packages share resources with other packages in the same group. When
you install a package using Installation Manager, you can create a
package group or install the packages into an existing package group.
(Some packages cannot share a package group, in which case the option
to use an existing package group is disabled.)
- Repository
- A persistent storage area where packages are available for download.
A repository can be disc media, a folder on a local hard disk, or
a server or web location.
- Shared resources directory
- In some instances, product packages can share resources. These
resources are in a directory that the packages share.