Installing optional software products or service updates
Optional software products and service updates can be installed using system management tools provided with the operating system.
After the service updates are applied and committed by the method of your choice, if a system restart is required, you can perform the AIX Live Update operation to eliminate the reboot requirement.
To view the files as they are being installed, do the
following:
- In SMIT, you can set the DETAILED Output field
to
yesto list the files being restored during an installation. - You can also use the installp command with the verbose option (-V2) to show which files have been updated.