gnu tar v1.19 installation error messages

[Jan Shu]

It is the same steps for Itanium servers, except I downloaded the 4 files for HPUX 11.23 Itanium.

[Jan Shu]

correction on my previouse update:
It should be "gtar" in below command line
gtar -cvf afiles.tar apple angst aspic

[Dennis Handly]

>3. run SAM Software Manager Install utilities and install them in this order:

You can use swinstall to install them directly:
# swinstall -s $PWD/tar-1.19-hppa-11.23.depot \*

You can also swcopy the 4 depots into a larger depot and then install them all at once. (This is useful for patches that reboot after each one.)
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1170628

[Steven Schweda]

> ln -s /usr/local/bin/tar /usr/bin/gtar

If you specify the link this way, that is,
with an absolute path instead of a relative
path, you can have problems in some cases. I
claim that
"ln -s ../local/bin/tar /usr/local/bin/gtar"
is safer.

For example, if you use an NFS mount like
/net/other_host/usr/bin/gtar, my link will
take you to /net/other_host/usr/local/bin/tar,
but yours will take you to /usr/local/bin/tar,
which may or may not exist.

[Jan Shu]

This thread is close after successful gnu tar 1.19 installation according above helpful inputs. Thank you very much.

Happy New Year.

Best Regards,
Jan