Understanding these terms and conventions can help you
take full advantage of the installation information and your product.
These
terms are used in the installation topics.
- Installation directory
- The location of product artifacts after the package is installed.
- Package
- An installable unit of a software product. Software product packages
are separately installable units that can operate independently from
other packages of that software product.
- Package group
- A package group is a directory in which different product packages
share resources with other packages in the same group. When you install
a package using Installation Manager, you can create a new package
group or install the packages into an existing package group. (Some
packages cannot share a package group, in which case the option to
use an existing package group is unavailable.)
- Repository
- A storage area where packages are available for download. A repository
can be disc media, a folder on a local hard disk, or a server or Web
location.
- Shared directory
- In some instances, product packages can share resources. These
resources are located in a directory that the packages share.