Deploying software packages to linux

Hello,
Apparantly it is possible to use in SCCM 2012 to do the following things with Linux clients:
-deploy software to linux using packages (not applications)
-install program updates
-install OS updates
Nowhere I can find more about this. I'm currently writing a thesis about SCCM and like to write some more about Linux. I've found about installing sccm agent on linux en running the service on linux, but nothing about deploying packges to linux... Does anyone
have some examples of these 3 things? It would be much appreciated.
kind regards

Hi,
In addtion, please refer to the following video:
Supporting Linux, Unix and Mac Clients with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1
http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2012/10/30/supporting-linux-unix-and-mac-clients-with-system-center-2012-configuration-manager-sp1.aspx#.UO3hIWbKzq5
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Group Policy - Issues deploying software packages through GPO

Hello everyone,
I am having issues successfully deploying MSI packages through group policy. I have set my computer account up in its own test OU in my domain, but yet the software will not deploy. Example, I'm trying to deploy AVG Anti-Virus and make sure it
is installed on each and every PC in my domain. As for the GPO, I set it up as an assigned package and pointed to the location of the package with the UNC file path (visible to both the DC and my computer that is part of the affected OU)
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> Magnolia_Schools.exe
What's that???
> \\hs-dc2\software\avg\installavg.msi
> <file://\\hs-dc2\software\avg\installavg.msi> /qb addeploy=1
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then wraps it to run magnolia_schools.exe which installs the AV software. I am uninstalling AVG now and will try reinstalling with
\\hs-dc2\software\avg\installavg.msi /qb ADDEPLOY=1 and report back.
also, the only logs I found that were around the time of the install attempt were such as these:
1: 2905 2: C:\windows\system32\appmgmt\MACHINE\{06ee0d46-cd5f-4216-a09f-2aeb573aa5ba}.aas
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I will say this, if this means anything...now that AVG is installed, the event logs are changing from an error %%1603 to this:
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nope, I did not start actual testing of the scenario, and this for several reasons (I'm sure TimDK understands what I'm talking about :-))
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In short, I'm thinking about the concept(s) that can be used, actual testing and playing with it will be for later... I thank everybody for the tips, my goal is to get some thoughts and insights from the experts, one can only learn... I will feedback later
about the what and how and which solution will actually gets implemented.
Regards,
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Yes, that's correct.
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[change your commandline to be: wusa KBnumber.msu /quiet /norestart]
I guess you aren't using Software Update Management (which could be doing this for you)?
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Unable to Deploy Software using GPO in Windows Server 2012

Dear Microsoft Team,
When I tried to deploy a software using GPO its giving an error -Add operation failed. Unable to extract deployment information from the package. Run validation on the package to ensure that the package is correct

Hi Subin,
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אם תגובתי פתרה את בעייתך - לחץ/י, על "סמן כתשובה" ליד סימן ה V הירוק.

I do not see the updates in View installed updates
אם תגובתי פתרה את בעייתך - לחץ/י, על "סמן כתשובה" ליד סימן ה V הירוק.
The first place to look for any deployment status is logs . logs can help you what is going behind the scenes.there is no point always looking at software center if something not working. You never provide the sufficient/correct information about your problem.
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Hi Manik,
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