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The QNX Software Center (QSC) enables you to create and manage installations of the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) and related products.
myQNX License Manager and QNX Software Center User's Guide
This guide explains how to use the myQNX License Manager and the QNX Software Center. It is intended for corporate buyers, development managers, and IT administrators who need to manage QNX product licenses, and for developers who need to install and maintain QNX software on their development hosts.
Using the QNX Software Center
The QNX Software Center provides a secure, efficient way to discover, install, and manage software products distributed by QNX. It replaces traditional command-line procedures with a graphical user interface that takes the guesswork out of managing product dependencies. It also lets you create patch sets: specific configurations of QNX products, patches, and updates that enable development teams to reproduce issues and standardize on the same software base.
Install updates
The QNX Software Center automatically displays product updates that you are entitled to.

QNX Software Center
The QNX Software Center (QSC) enables you to create and manage installations of the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) and related products.
- myQNX License Manager and QNX Software Center User's Guide
  This guide explains how to use the myQNX License Manager and the QNX Software Center. It is intended for corporate buyers, development managers, and IT administrators who need to manage QNX product licenses, and for developers who need to install and maintain QNX software on their development hosts.
  - Introduction
    Together, the myQNX License Manager and the QNX Software Center make it easy to license, download, install, and maintain QNX software products. It doesn’t matter whether your company is a small development shop with a handful of developers or a large OEM with globally distributed software teams. Either way, these tools will maximize the efficiency of your license administrators and enable all of your developers to stay up to date with the latest QNX software tools and components.
  - Create Your myQNX Account
    To use the myQNX License Manager or the QNX Software Center, you must first create a myQNX account. Setup is easy and takes only a few minutes.
  - Important Terms and Definitions
    This section covers important definitions that can help you better understand how to use QNX licenses.
  - Using the myQNX License Manager
    The myQNX License Manager lets you take centralized control of the QNX licensing for your organization. It reduces the hard work of managing licenses for large software teams to a few simple tasks that you can perform from a single, easy-to-use control panel:
  - Using the QNX Software Center
    The QNX Software Center provides a secure, efficient way to discover, install, and manage software products distributed by QNX. It replaces traditional command-line procedures with a graphical user interface that takes the guesswork out of managing product dependencies. It also lets you create patch sets: specific configurations of QNX products, patches, and updates that enable development teams to reproduce issues and standardize on the same software base.
    - View your registered products
      Before you begin using the QNX Software Center, visit your myQNX account profile to view the products that have been deployed to you. The profile includes a Registered Products section, which shows at a glance the license key, serial number, license certificate, and license administrators for each deployed product. If the products you need to install don’t appear in your profile, contact your license administrator.
    - Install and launch the QNX Software Center
      To install the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) 7.* and any of its associated packages, you must first install the QNX Software Center onto your workstation.
    - Install the QNX Software Development Platform
      After you log in, the QNX Software Center displays a Welcome screen that lets you install the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) and other QNX products.
    - Add, choose, or remove installations
      The QNX Software Center lets you create and maintain multiple installations of the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) on your workstation. Each installation serves as a container for a set of QNX software packages, and each lives in its own directory, where you can modify it independently of any other installation. For instance, you can create one installation for production purposes, another for experimental purposes, and so on. You can install copies of the same addon package in multiple installations.
    - Advanced installations
    - Install the QNX Momentics IDE
      If you intend to develop applications for the QNX OS, we recommend that you install the QNX Momentics IDE. The IDE extends the capabilities of the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) by providing a graphical environment for developing, debugging, and profiling applications.
    - Get to know the QNX Software Center’s user interface
      After you install the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP), you see the main screen of the QNX Software Center.
    - Manage Your Product Licenses
      To activate or deactivate your product license, it's always best to use the QNX Software Center (QSC). If, for some reason, you are unable to use QSC, both processes can be completed from your myQNX account profile.
    - Inspect package and file properties
      Using the QNX Software Center, you can inspect the properties of any package or file available for, or deployed in, an installation.
    - Edit installation properties
      The Edit Installation Properties dialog helps you control which packages will be added to your installations. You can change these properties at any time; you can also assign a different set of properties to each installation. For instance, you can assign one set of properties to an installation used for production purposes, and another set of properties to an installation used for experimental purposes.
    - Group by
      The Group by action allows users to group Available packages by Download Center Folder or Release.
    - Read the package release notes
      If a software package has release notes, you can access the notes through the QNX Software Center, either before or after you install the package.
    - View the end user license agreement
      If a software package has an end user license agreement, you can access it through the QNX Software Center (QSC). The end user license is displayed as part of the package properties. For more information about viewing package properties, go to inspect package and file properties. If the end user license agreement section of the package properties doesn't contain the full text agreement with a link, then you can use the following procedures.
    - Email notifications
      Subscribe to receive email notifications regarding new package updates or customer notifications.
    - Install addon packages
      Once you’ve installed the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP), you have a complete environment for developing programs that run on the QNX OS. The environment includes the QNX Momentics IDE and a rich suite of command-line tools. To run programs on QNX OS, you need to install addon packages, such as a reference image (for instance, a virtual machine for VMware) or a board support package (BSP) for your target system.
    - Install debug symbols
      Many packages include debug symbols. To install the debug symbols for a package, you install the package first. You can then install some or all of its debug symbols.
    - Install updates
      The QNX Software Center automatically displays product updates that you are entitled to.
    - Downgrade a package to a previous version
      The QNX Software Center allows you to downgrade an installed package to a previous version.
    - Uninstall packages
      The QNX Software Center lets you uninstall packages that you have added to an installation.
    - Filter packages
    - Work offline
      If you are developing on a workstation that has no Internet connection, you can still use the QNX Software Center in offline mode. You can, for example, import a new installation from a locally mounted package archive. You can also install addons and updates that were included in your import, and work with patch sets. However, the QNX Software Center won’t be able to notify you of newer updates from QNX.
  - QNX Software Center Advanced Topics
    This chapter guides you through tasks that you may have to perform only on occasion. It also discusses how to address potential connectivity or license activation issues.
  - Using the QNX Software Center Command Line
    The qnxsoftwarecenter_clt script lets you run the QNX Software Center from the command line. The script uses the same infrastructure as the QNX Software Center’s GUI.
  - Manifest Reports & File Lookup
    Using the QNX Software Center, you can create manifest reports for any QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) installation, or for any QNX target image that resides on your target hardware or development host.
  - Glossary
    To make best use of the QNX Software Center, we recommend that you become familiar with the following terms, which are used throughout the center's user interface and documentation.
- Creating and Deploying Installations of QNX SDP in Large Organizations
  This guide is intended for system administrators and developers who need to perform unattended installation of the QNX Software Center and the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP), or who need to create deployed installations of QNX SDP.
- QNX Software Center Technotes
  These technotes explain how to work around many issues with using the QNX Software Center.
- Typographical Conventions, Support, and Licensing
  This section describes the typographical conventions used throughout the documentation and explains how to obtain technical support.

Install updates

The QNX Software Center automatically displays product updates that you are entitled to.

Installing one or more updates

Note:

The Updates tab supports the same package-selection and sorting methods as the Available tab. See Install addon packages for details.

To install an update for installed package:

In the Welcome screen, click Check for Package Updates.
In the Updates tab, select the update or updates you wish to install, then right-click and select Install.

Alternatively, go to the Installed tab and find the package you want to update. Right-click the package and select Update to see a list of updates for the package, then pick a specific version.
Make sure that the update you want to install is checked, then click Next.
Review the list of packages that the QNX Software Center will install, then click Finish.
When installation is complete, you'll see the update in the Installed tab.

You don’t have to worry about installing updates in a specific order. The QNX Software Center manages dependencies for you.

Installing all updates

To install all available updates, click Select All in the Updates tab, then click Install.

Note:

You can also downgrade a package to a previous version. See Downgrade a package to a previous version for more information.

Installation Reporting

Package summary

Click Show Package Summary before an installation to view a detailed summary of the package or packages being installed or uninstalled, including links to the release notes.

File summary

Click Show File Summary before an installation to view a report of files being added, removed or changed.

The following types of changes may occur:

ADDED: The file has been added.
REMOVE: The file has been removed.
REPLACED_CHANGED: The file has been changed.
REPLACED_UNCHANGED: The file has been updated but it is exactly the same as before.
REPLACED_SAMECODE: The checksum is different but code is the the same - this is done by checking the checksum of the binary.

This report can also be exported as text or in a CSV file.

Page updated: February 04, 2025