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Patch User Guides
Explore how BigFix Patch streamlines automated patch management, enhances vulnerability remediation, and facilitates seamless update deployment from a unified console. This comprehensive solution ensures efficient system maintenance and security, making it an essential tool for IT professionals.
Patch for Ubuntu User's Guide
Discover how 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.
Using Patch for Ubuntu
Access Ubuntu Fixlets sites for Ubuntu security updates from the BigFix console.
Deleting repositories
You can delete repositories with the Ubuntu/Debian Custom Repository Management dashboard.

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
Explore how BigFix Patch streamlines automated patch management, enhances vulnerability remediation, and facilitates seamless update deployment from a unified console. This comprehensive solution ensures efficient system maintenance and security, making it an essential tool for IT professionals.
- Patch for Windows User's Guide
  Discover how 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
  Discover how BigFix 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
  Discover how 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
  Discover how 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
  Discover how 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.
  - Using Patch for Ubuntu
    Access Ubuntu Fixlets sites for Ubuntu security updates from the BigFix console.
    - Patch Using Fixlets
      From the console, select the action for the appropriate Fixlets that you want to deploy. The action propagates across your deployment and applies patches based on the settings that you make in the Fixlet work area and the Take Action dialog.
    - Ubuntu Client setting
      BigFix Patch for Ubuntu client settings refer to the configurations and preferences established within the operating system for managing and applying software patches, updates, and fixes.
    - Patches for Ubuntu Fixlet Sites
      Ubuntu security updates are available through email lists, RSS feeds, and through the Ubuntu website and Launchpad, the web support site that hosts applications such as Ubuntu.
    - Superseded Fixlets
      In BigFix, supersedence is a property of Fixlets that provides multiple packages. In Launchpad, the host website for applications such as Ubuntu, supersedence is a property of every package.
    - Adding repositories
      You can add repositories with the Ubuntu/Debian Custom Repository Management dashboard.
    - Importing repositories
      You can import repositories with the Ubuntu/Debian Custom Repository Management dashboard.
    - Registering endpoints to repositories
      Register and connect your repositories to endpoints with the Ubuntu/Debian Custom Repository Management dashboard.
    - Deleting repositories
      You can delete repositories with the Ubuntu/Debian Custom Repository Management dashboard.
    - Frequently asked questions
      The questions and answers in this section can help you to better understand Patch for Ubuntu.
- Patch for Oracle Linux User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch 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
  Discover how BigFix® 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
  Discover how 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
  Discover how 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.
Technical Reference
Detailed documentation of system components, configurations, and patch management processes.
General Information
Overview of key concepts, features, and basic usage of the patch management system.
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:

Deleting repositories

You can delete repositories with the Ubuntu/Debian Custom Repository Management dashboard.

Procedure

From the All Content domain, go to Sites > External Sites > Patching Support > Dashboards > Ubuntu/Debian Custom Repository Management.
From the Repositories tab, select the repository that you want to delete and click Delete.
Click Yes to delete the repository.

Results

The repository is now deleted.