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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

 

Solaris package (contains package instances)

.pkg, .tar

 

Solaris IPS package

.p5p

 

RPM

.rpm

 

ZIP

.zip

 

Application Installation Media

.zip

 

Executable

.sh

N/A

Ubuntu

Debian packages

.deb

 

N/A

ZIP

.zip

 

Windows

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hotfix

.exe

 

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.