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BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
Patch for Ubuntu User's Guide
BigFix Patch for Ubuntu provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Ubuntu endpoints.
Overview
BigFix Patch for Ubuntu provides Fixlets that you use to manage the security updates and service packs that Ubuntu releases. These Fixlets are available through the Patches for Ubuntu sites.
Supported Ubuntu repositories
BigFix Patch for Ubuntu supports the packages in several Ubuntu repositories.

BigFix Documentation Homepage
BigFix 10 Patch Documentation
Welcome to the BigFix Patch documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the BigFix Patch.
BigFix Platform
Patch Overview
BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
Patch User Guides
BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
- Patch for Windows User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Windows™ provides Fixlets for Microsoft™ security and non-security patches. Dashboards, wizards, and reports aid you in managing updates for various endpoint devices.
- Patch for AIX User's Guide
  BigFix® for Patch for AIX® provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility, and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all AIX endpoints.
- Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility, and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Red Hat Enterprise Linux endpoints.
- Patch for CentOS Linux User's Guide
  BigFix® Patch for CentOS Linux™ provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all CentOs endpoints.
- Patch for Amazon Linux User's Guide
  BigFix® Patch for Amazon Linux™ provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Amazon Linux endpoints.
- Patch for SUSE Linux Enterprise User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for SUSE Linux Enterprise provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all SUSE Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Ubuntu User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Ubuntu provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Ubuntu endpoints.
  - Overview
    BigFix Patch for Ubuntu provides Fixlets that you use to manage the security updates and service packs that Ubuntu releases. These Fixlets are available through the Patches for Ubuntu sites.
    - Supported Versions and Platforms
      Patch for Ubuntu sites support Ubuntu versions 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04 LTS (Long Term Support), which are releases typically used for large-scale deployments.
    - Supported Ubuntu repositories
      BigFix Patch for Ubuntu supports the packages in several Ubuntu repositories.
    - Site subscription
      Sites are collections of Fixlet messages that are created internally by you, by HCL, or by vendors.
  - Using Patch for Ubuntu
    Access Ubuntu Fixlets sites for Ubuntu security updates from the BigFix console.
- Patch for Oracle Linux User's Guide
  BigFix® Patches for Oracle Linux provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Oracle Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Solaris User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Solaris provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Solaris endpoints.
- Patch for HP-UX User's Guide
  BigFix® for Patch for HP-UX provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all HP-UX endpoints.
- Patch for Mac OS X User's Guide
  BigFix® for Patch for Mac OS X provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Mac OS X endpoints.
- Patch for Debian User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Debian provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Debian endpoints.
- Patch for VMware ESXi User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for VMware ESXi provides you unified, near real-time visibility to manage patches to all VMware ESXi endpoints from a single console.
- Patch for Raspbian User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Raspbian provides Fixlets that you use to manage the latest updates and service packs that Raspberry Pi releases. These Fixlets are available through the Patches for Raspbian sites.
- Patch for Rocky Linux User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Rocky Linux provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Rocky Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager User's Guide
  BigFix® for Virtual Endpoint Manager provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches in a virtual environment.
- Supersedence for Non-Windows
  This topic describes how supersedence works in Patch.
Detailed system requirements
The tables in this section provide detailed information about the system requirements for BigFix 10.
Glossary
This glossary provides terms and definitions for the BigFix® Patch software and products.
Patch guides in PDF format
Following is a list of links to the BigFix Patch user guides in PDF format:

Supported Ubuntu repositories

BigFix Patch for Ubuntu supports the packages in several Ubuntu repositories.

The following table lists the repositories that contain the supported packages for the supported BigFix Patch for Ubuntu site subscription.

Table 1. Supported Ubuntu repositories
Site subscription	Distribution	Repository
Patches for Ubuntu 2004	http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal-security/	main, multiverse, universe, restricted
Updates for Ubuntu 2004	http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal-updates/	main, multiverse, universe, restricted
Updates for Ubuntu 2004	http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/	main, multiverse, universe, restricted
Patches for Ubuntu 2204	http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-security/	main, multiverse, universe, restricted
Updates for Ubuntu 2204	http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-updates/	main, multiverse, universe, restricted
Updates for Ubuntu 2204	http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy/	main, multiverse, universe, restricted
Patches for Ubuntu 2404	http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble-security/	main, multiverse, universe, restricted

Note: For Ubuntu <version>, the Updates repository only supports packages with priorities other than "Optional".

Ubuntu-announce: The Patches for Ubuntu sites also supports the announcements from the security notices page. Refer to https://ubuntu.com/security/notices.

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