Introduction

Introduction

This guide describes the use and the features of the main components of CA Technologies Software Management for Linux and UNIX, the Packager and the Installer.

The Software Management features and their purposes are generally introduced; the main functions are also applied to build a sample PIF product. This example is provided in a separate chapter, where the creation of the sample PIF product is described step by step to make the process easy understandable.

The Software Management features described in this guide and the Packager and Installer software are available with the PIF Software Development Kit (SDK) Version 4.7.

Audience of this guide are administrators and developers who want to create software products to install on Linux and UNIX target computers. You should have extensive knowledge of the Linux and UNIX operating systems, including Java environments and X emulations, and you must be familiar with packaging software products and installing them on various Linux and UNIX operating environments on target computers.

If you want to distribute and install Linux or UNIX products over a network, you must understand the software delivery concepts, usage, and terminology.