Chapter 2 Preparing for the Installation

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Performing a Patch Preinstallation Check

Phase 1 – System Evaluation
Phase 2 – Patch Layered Product Conflicts
Phase 3 – Identifying Manually Installed Patches
Phase 4 – Handling Missing or Unknown Files on Your System
Phase 5 – Enabling dupatch to Overwrite Changed System Files
Phase 6 – Report CSPs with Inventory Conflicts
Phase 7 – Enable patches with File Applicability Conflicts
Steps for Running the Baseline Procedure

This chapter describes information you need to be aware of before you install a patch kit. It also describes the steps to take for tasks such as performing a preinstallation check and a baselining operation.