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    <title>topic Re: software-packages in VMware vSphere™ Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370578#M13058</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Well, when I want to check which patches will gets actually installed, the command is not found :&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5.0.15000&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Type: vCenter Server with an embedded Platform Services Controller&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;A href="mailto:root@pcoe-vcsa.pcoe.fr's"&gt;root@pcoe-vcsa.pcoe.fr's&lt;/A&gt; password:&lt;BR /&gt;Last login: Thu Aug 16 07:02:44 2018 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;A href="mailto:root@PCOE-VCSA"&gt;root@PCOE-VCSA&lt;/A&gt; [ ~ ]# software-packages list –staged&lt;BR /&gt;-bash: software-packages: command not found&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So where is the problem?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>PGinhoux</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2018-08-16T08:10:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>software-packages</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370576#M13056</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Author : &lt;A _jive_internal="true" href="https://communities.vmware.com/people/ChrisBedford"&gt;Chris Bedford&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;URL : &lt;A href="http:////docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.upgrade.doc/GUID-5FCA78EC-8637-43A4-8B28-24624E4D5EBA.html"&gt;http:////docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.upgrade.doc/GUID-5FCA78EC-8637-43A4-8B28-24624E4D5EBA.html&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Topic Name : Install vCenter Server Appliance Patches&lt;/P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;P&gt;Publication Name : vSphere Upgrade&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Product/Version : VMware vSphere/6.0&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Question :&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;how to download the software-packages utility&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 07:23:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Pat72</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-16T07:23:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: software-packages</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370577#M13057</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Software-packages&amp;nbsp; utility is embedded with vCSA. You don't have to download any utility.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.vladan.fr/patch-vmware-vcenter-server-vcsa/" title="https://www.vladan.fr/patch-vmware-vcenter-server-vcsa/"&gt;https://www.vladan.fr/patch-vmware-vcenter-server-vcsa/&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Putty into appliance shell and you will be able to patch using vCSA&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Please consider marking this answer as "correct" or "helpful" if you think your questions have been answered&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:00:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vijay2027</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-16T08:00:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: software-packages</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370578#M13058</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Well, when I want to check which patches will gets actually installed, the command is not found :&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5.0.15000&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Type: vCenter Server with an embedded Platform Services Controller&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;A href="mailto:root@pcoe-vcsa.pcoe.fr's"&gt;root@pcoe-vcsa.pcoe.fr's&lt;/A&gt; password:&lt;BR /&gt;Last login: Thu Aug 16 07:02:44 2018 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;A href="mailto:root@PCOE-VCSA"&gt;root@PCOE-VCSA&lt;/A&gt; [ ~ ]# software-packages list –staged&lt;BR /&gt;-bash: software-packages: command not found&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So where is the problem?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>PGinhoux</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-16T08:10:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: software-packages</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370579#M13059</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;You will have to run software-packages from the below shell&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="pastedImage_0.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3708iF5B7C76D0E9E4960/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="pastedImage_0.png" alt="pastedImage_0.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:11:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vijay2027</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-16T08:11:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: software-packages</title>
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      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Putty into vCSA and run the below command:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;chsh -s /bin/appliancesh root&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Close and re-launch putty to vCSA.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:13:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370580#M13060</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vijay2027</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-16T08:13:13Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: software-packages</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370581#M13061</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks, &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I can now run the help command&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Command&amp;gt; &lt;STRONG&gt;software-packages -h&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;usage: software-packages [-h] {stage,unstage,validate,install,list} ...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;optional arguments:&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp; -h, --help&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; show this help message and exit&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;sub-commands:&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp; {stage,unstage,validate,install,list}&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; stage&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Stage software update packages&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; unstage&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Purge staged software update packages&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; validate&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Validate software update packages&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; install&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Install software update packages&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; list&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; List details of software update packages&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;but the one as documented on the site still fails (with double '--' or a single '-') :&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Command&amp;gt; &lt;STRONG&gt;software-packages list --staged&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;usage: software-packages [-h] {stage,unstage,validate,install,list} ...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;software-packages: error: unrecognized arguments: –-staged&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Command&amp;gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Command&amp;gt; &lt;STRONG&gt;software-packages list -staged&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;usage: software-packages [-h] {stage,unstage,validate,install,list} ...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;software-packages: error: unrecognized arguments: –staged&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:26:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>PGinhoux</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-16T08:26:08Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: software-packages</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370582#M13062</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;command looks good to me.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;software-packages list --staged&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="pastedImage_0.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3709i01DB6591403D5ABC/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="pastedImage_0.png" alt="pastedImage_0.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:30:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370582#M13062</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vijay2027</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-16T08:30:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: software-packages</title>
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      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Alos, can you login to bash shell and run the below command to verify disk utilization.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;df -Th&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="pastedImage_0.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3710i89CB1651C1B734CA/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="pastedImage_0.png" alt="pastedImage_0.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:32:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vijay2027</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-16T08:32:59Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: software-packages</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370584#M13064</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Well, my problem was probably a typo as I initially copy and paste the command from the site.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;but it not so evident to see:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="pastedImage_0.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3712iCF3FF7ACB07F7EEB/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="pastedImage_0.png" alt="pastedImage_0.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So retyping manually 'list --staged' returns a good result.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks for the help.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:38:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>PGinhoux</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-16T08:38:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: software-packages</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370585#M13065</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Glad I could help!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;software-packages install –iso –accepteulas --&amp;gt; To patch vCSA.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:44:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370585#M13065</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vijay2027</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-16T08:44:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: software-packages</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370586#M13066</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I mark this as 'helpful' only because I don't see it possible to be marked as 'solved' also.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:49:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>PGinhoux</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-16T08:49:52Z</dc:date>
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      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370587#M13067</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P style="font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; color: #373737; text-align: justify;"&gt;In summary of the options:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"&gt;Pick one of the following:&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;CODE style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Monaco, Consolas, 'Andale Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', monospace;"&gt;&lt;STRONG style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"&gt;software-packages stage --iso --acceptEulas&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/CODE&gt;&lt;EM style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"&gt;stages software packages from ISO and accepts EULA.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;CODE style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Monaco, Consolas, 'Andale Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', monospace;"&gt;&lt;STRONG style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"&gt;software-packages stage --url --acceptEulas&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/CODE&gt;&lt;EM style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"&gt;stages software packages from the default VMware online repository and accepts EULA.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Verify that it downloaded correctly:&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;CODE style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Monaco, Consolas, 'Andale Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', monospace;"&gt;&lt;STRONG style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"&gt;software-packages list --staged&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/CODE&gt;&lt;EM style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"&gt;lists the details of the staged software package.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"&gt;Install the updates:&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;CODE style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Monaco, Consolas, 'Andale Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', monospace;"&gt;&lt;STRONG style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"&gt;software-packages install --staged&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/CODE&gt;&lt;EM style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"&gt;installs the staged software package.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"&gt;Apply the changes:&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;CODE style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Monaco, Consolas, 'Andale Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', monospace;"&gt;&lt;STRONG style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"&gt;reboot&amp;nbsp; &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/CODE&gt;&lt;EM style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"&gt;reboots the VCSA &lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"&gt;Also if like me you had a PSC where the software-packages command was missing try this instead:&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;# python /usr/lib/applmgmt/support/scripts/software-packages.py &amp;lt;&lt;EM&gt;Then add options&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2018 21:19:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>vFouad</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-24T21:19:44Z</dc:date>
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      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Can we do something like this:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;/bin/appliancesh --username root software-packages list on bash shell?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;How does ansible run on appliancesh?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2019 09:54:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>uday_singh</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-05-21T09:54:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: software-packages</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370589#M13069</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi Uday,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The above commands work from the appliance login session when your prompt reads Command&amp;gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="pastedImage_0.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/10715i14A534192A5D7B90/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="pastedImage_0.png" alt="pastedImage_0.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;As soon as you type shell, you are dropped into an appliancesh session.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Usually denoted by a:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;root@hostname [ ~ ]#&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;from the appliance shell you can get results for software packages by running:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt; python /usr/lib/applmgmt/support/scripts/software-packages.py&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Followed by the same command structure; for example:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="pastedImage_1.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/10717i3F1E01323562533D/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="pastedImage_1.png" alt="pastedImage_1.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have obscured part of the hostname.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Could you please clarify what you are attempting to do with ansible?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2019 13:24:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370589#M13069</guid>
      <dc:creator>vFouad</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-05-21T13:24:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: software-packages</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370590#M13070</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Publication Name : vSphere Upgrade Product/Version : VMware vSphere/6.0 Question : how to download the software-packages utility &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2019 20:50:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370590#M13070</guid>
      <dc:creator>mopa90001</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-05-21T20:50:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: software-packages</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370591#M13071</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks for reply,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This will help.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Actually we are writing code to automate the deployment of VMWare vCloud NFV 3.1 with VIO 5.1. We are using pyVmomi sdk and Ansible. Our main focus would be to use Ansible VMware cloud modules. It seems Ansible do not have complete features w.r.t VMware automation. Only vSphere automation is supported as of now and that too only 95%. hence I decided to use pyVmomi wherever Ansible lags. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We also have to take care of updates and patches and I found this command "software-packages install –iso " but Ansible does not work on "appliancesh".&amp;nbsp; For other activities I have changed default shell to bash. For command "software-packages install" I wanted to run from bash shell and you helped.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;BR//uday&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2019 04:05:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370591#M13071</guid>
      <dc:creator>uday_singh</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-05-22T04:05:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: software-packages</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370592#M13072</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hello,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I had the same issue where software-packages was an unknown command and this made the trick. So the thread should be marked as answer.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks a lot &lt;B&gt;Vijay2027&lt;/B&gt;​&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Jeremy&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 15:07:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/1370592#M13072</guid>
      <dc:creator>JemG</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-05-15T15:07:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: software-packages</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/2810712#M36631</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thank you for the post for how to get into Appliance Shell.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;After patch is completed, is there a way to change back to regular shell?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:06:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/2810712#M36631</guid>
      <dc:creator>dave_utility</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-11-18T18:06:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: software-packages</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/2849285#M39263</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Sorry for the late reply but for anyone digging this thread up, to change back: From Appliance Shell, type shell. Once in Bash, type chsh -s /bin/bash.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2021 17:55:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/software-packages/m-p/2849285#M39263</guid>
      <dc:creator>greghampton</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-05-26T17:55:27Z</dc:date>
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