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Supported operating systems and package types

SA supports these package types on the supported operating systems, as shown in the following table.

Supported operating systems and package types

Operating system

Package type

File formats

Additional metadata

AIX

LPP (contains an update fileset or base filesets)

.bff, .I, .U, .lpp

N/A

RPM

.rpm

N/A

ZIP

.zip

N/A

Application Installation Media

.zip

N/A

Executable

.sh

N/A

HP-UX

Depot (contains products and filesets)

.tar, .depot

N/A

ZIP

.zip

N/A

Application Installation Media

.zip

N/A

Executable

.sh

N/A

Linux

RPM

.rpm

N/A

ZIP

.zip

N/A

Application Installation Media

.zip

N/A

Executable

.sh

N/A

Solaris

Patch

.jar, .tar, tar.gz, .tar.Z, t.gz, .zip

N/A

Patch Cluster (contains patches)

.tar, .tar.gz, tar.Z, .tgz, .zip

N/A

Solaris package (contains package instances)

.pkg, .tar

N/A

Solaris IPS package

.p5p

N/A

RPM

.rpm

N/A

ZIP

.zip

N/A

Application Installation Media

.zip

N/A

Executable

.sh

N/A

Ubuntu

Debian packages

.deb

N/A

ZIP

.zip

N/A

Windows

Hotfix

.exe

N/A

 

Security Patch

.exe

N/A

 

MSI

.msi

N/A

 

OS Service Pack

.exe

Service Pack Level

 

Windows Utility (Microsoft Security Baseline Analyzer and qchain)

.exe

N/A

 

Microsoft Patch Database (contains a description of available patches)

.xml, .cab

N/A

 

ZIP

.zip

N/A

 

Application Installation Media

.zip

N/A

 

Executable

.exe, .sh

N/A

OS Independent

Unknown

All

N/A

* For certain package types, SA requires that you provide additional metadata for the package.