HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide, March 2012

Identifying installed software
Identifying installed software can serve more than one purpose: on your system, it can help you
determine what software will get updated or overwritten; and on media, it can help you determine
your software choices.
To identify the software products on a system or media, use swlist. For example, to show revision
and descriptive title of all software installed on a system, enter:
/usr/sbin/swlist
For more information, see the swlist(1M) manpage or the Software Distributor Administration Guide,
available on the Instant Information DVD or the web (http://www.hp.com/go/sd-docs).
NOTE: Third-party software might have been installed onto the system without using Software
Distributor. If so, it will not appear in the output of swlist. You should consult your own
documentation about the system to determine what other applications might be installed.
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