Problems with swinstall

Shane Travis — Mon, 06 Nov 2000 19:15:40 GMT

Situation: Someone here needs the QT libraries, which I downloaded from http://hpux.cae.wisc.edu/hppd/hpux/Gtk/qt-2.2.1/

In going to install them, I have performed the following steps:
1) Download from site to windows box.
2) ftp from windows box to HP-UX box.
3) Place file in directory /foo/bar/patches.
4) ungzip the depot
5) run 'swinstall'
6) Actions --> Change source
7) Source Depot Type: Local Directory
8) Source Depot Path /foo/bar/patches/qt-2.2.1-sd-11.00.depot
9) OK

On doing this, I receive the following error message: "The source you have chosen is a tape device. A tape device must be local to the single marked target. Since the hostname of the tape device does not match the hostname of the single marked target, this source is not allowed. Please choose a different source."

Running tar -xvf on the depot shows that it all unpacks properly, so it doesn't look like simple corruption.

Anyone got any bright ideas? I seem to be all out today...

Re: Problems with swinstall

Kofi ARTHIABAH — Mon, 06 Nov 2000 19:21:18 GMT

Tim:

Try the following instead:

swinstall -s /foo/bar/patches/qt-2.2.1-sd-11.00.depot

I have had better success with that syntax.

Re: Problems with swinstall

Shane Travis — Mon, 06 Nov 2000 19:34:15 GMT

BadaBING! Thanks, Kofi.

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