how to install software?

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Typo: swinstall -s /home/pin/swatch-3.0.4.deport swatch

it's not .deport, but depot

to see what's *INSIDE* a depot:

swlist -s /home/pin/swatch-3.0.4.depot -l product -l bundle

Since I think I've hit the nail 100% in my first reply, I think you should start asigning poiunt to the messages

[Mateja Bezjak]

Hi,

When you untar the product, follow swatch-3.0.4/INSTALL file. It says:

To install, simply issue the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
make realclean

Regards,
Mateja

[iambluegary]

i found i didnot have CPAN module
and i go to search.cpan.org,but i dont know what is the module i need

[Trond Haugen]

Seems from the answers this is not a SD depot. But generally speaking a depot is a a tar file too so you can do a 'tar tvf XX.tar'.
On the other hand you can also try a swlist to see if it's a depot.

Regards,
Trond

[Mateja Bezjak]

Hi,

The README file says:
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It now requires perl 5 and the following modules: Time::HiRes, Date::Calc,
Date::Format, and File::Tail.

It now uses the File::Tail module instead of the unix tail(1) command to
actively monitor a file.
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Check http://www.oit.ucsb.edu/~eta/swatch/README