Installing Veritas System Recovery 18 or 16 Linux Edition on client computers

Last published : Sep 28, 2026
You can deploy the Veritas System Recovery 18 or 16 Linux Edition software delivery packages to client computers. You can also choose to install it with a user interface. The user interface lets you interact with the software from the desktop of the client computer.
For complete information about system requirements, see the Veritas System Recovery User's Guide Linux Edition.
Note: Veritas System Recovery Management Solution does not support the recovery of Linux-based computers. You must recover Linux-based computers on the local computer. For more information about using Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition, see theVeritas System Recovery User's Guide Linux Edition.
To install Veritas System Recovery 18 or 16 Linux Edition on client computers
  1. Uncompress and extract the Veritas System Recovery 18 or 16 Linux Edition package to a local drive.
  2. Copy the Veritas_System_Recovery.bin file from the extracted package to the following path:
C:\Program Files\Altiris\Veritas System Recovery Linux Management Solution\Web\SoftwareDelivery\VSRL\18.0.
C:\Program Files\Altiris\Veritas System Recovery Linux Management Solution\Web\SoftwareDelivery\VSRL\16.0.
  1. From the left pane of the Veritas System Recovery 21 Management Solution Packages and Policies tab, expand the Update Packages list.
  2. Under Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition:
    • Go to 18, click Install Without User Interface Package.
    • Go to 16, click Install Without User Interface Package.
  3. Do the following:
    To install Veritas System Recovery 18 or 16 Linux Edition that does not include a user Do the following\:
    interface on the desktop of client - On the Veritas System Recovery 21 Management Solution Packages and Policies tab, expand the Install Policies list in the left pane.
    computers. - Under Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition : Go to 18 , click Install Without User Interface . Go to 16 , click Install Without User Interface .
  4. On the upper-right corner of the right pane, click On to enable the software delivery policy.
  5. Set the deployment options.
    Program name Identifies the name of the program that you want to run.
    Enable Verbose Reporting of Status Events Sends the plug-in status events to the Notification Server computer.
    Applied to Identifies the resource target to which you want the software task applied.
    Package multicast Lets you uncheck (default) this option if you want to enable package multicast when the Symantec Management Agent's multicast option is disabled.
    Schedule Runs the software task either at a specific start time, or at specified start, end, and duration times.
    You can specify as many schedules as you need. You can also have any number of schedules active at once.
  6. Click Save changes.
To review the installation log file, look in the C:\Windows\Temp folder.