Symantec Packager, Implementation Manual

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Contents
Chapter 1 Introducing Symantec Packager
About Symantec Packager .................................................................................... 7
What you can do with Symantec Packager ........................................................ 7
Customize standard product installations ................................................. 8
Include custom commands with product installations ........................... 8
Install multiple products at once ................................................................ 9
Reuse product installations in different packages ................................. 10
How Symantec Packager works ......................................................................... 11
About the Import Products phase ............................................................. 12
About the Configure Products phase ........................................................ 13
About the Configure Packages phase ....................................................... 15
About the Deploy Packages phase ............................................................. 16
Where to find more information ....................................................................... 17
Accessing online Help ................................................................................. 17
Accessing the Symantec technical support Web site ............................. 17
Chapter 2 Installing Symantec Packager
System requirements .......................................................................................... 19
System requirements for Symantec Packager ........................................ 19
System requirements for installation packages ..................................... 20
User rights requirements ........................................................................... 20
Installing Symantec Packager ........................................................................... 21
Installing Symantec Packager from the installation CD ....................... 21
Starting the Symantec Packager installation program manually ....... 22
Uninstalling Symantec Packager ...................................................................... 22
Chapter 3 Symantec Packager basics
Opening Symantec Packager after installation .............................................. 25
Updating Symantec Packager ............................................................................ 26
Changing Symantec Packager Preferences and view options ...................... 26
Changing Symantec Packager data folders ............................................. 27
Listing supported product .msi files on the Deploy Packages tab ....... 28
Showing or hiding the Symantec logo ...................................................... 28
Changing the appearance of icons in Symantec Packager .................... 28
Accessing commands in Symantec Packager .................................................. 29