Installing Power Manager

Power Manager is distributed as a set of Installer packages. A meta-package is provided to combine the packages and offer a choice of optional features.

Meta-package

The meta-package combines the Power Manager packages. The meta-package contains the required files to support Mac OS X 10.3 and a distribution script to natively support Mac OS X 10.4’s improved Installer.

Core and Optional Packages

Power Manager’s packages are divided between a core engine and a set of optional features.

• Power Manager AppleScript Support.pkg
• Power Manager Automator Actions.pkg
• Power Manager Daemon.pkg
• Power Manager Framework.pkg
• Power Manager Login Window.pkg
• Power Manager Menu.pkg
• Power Manager System Preference.pkg
• Power Manager UNIX Support.pkg
• Power Manager Widget.pkg

Only the core engine needs to be installed for Power Manager to perform a schedule. The core engine consists of two packages.

• Power Manager Framework.pkg
• Power Manager Daemon.pkg

We recommend you minimally install a third package; this package provides command line access to Power Manager and its scheduler.

• Power Manager UNIX Support.pkg

Installation Order

The order in which packages are installed is important. You must install the Power Management Framework first; the shared framework is required by all the other packages.

Power Manager Framework must be installed first.

With the framework installed, there is no required order for the remaining packages.