topic Re: swinstall command in Operating System - HP-UX

swinstall command

Shivkumar — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:00:29 GMT

Dear Sirs;

I have downloaded a software in depot format say abc.depot.

I want to install in /opt/abc/ directory. Will "swinstall -s /home/shiv/abc.depot" command okay or any other better option.

Thanks,
Shiv

Re: swinstall command

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:07:29 GMT

That should do it althouth the destination is usually determined by the package itself and unexpected behaviors can result (unless the designer carefully planned for them) if a package is installed in a non-standard location. The -s option simply specifies the location of the source depot.

Re: swinstall command

Mel Burslan — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:24:35 GMT

Shiv,

As Clay indicated, on hpux, unlike windows (I know it is a bad analogy) you do not get to choose your installation directory under swinstall. Some other products which provide their own installation scripts, circumventing swinstall process, can give you this opportunity but not the packages installed with swinstall. This is mainly for consistency purposes more than anything else.

Re: swinstall command

Shivkumar — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:47:33 GMT

I believe software having *.depot extension can only be installed using "swinstall" command.

Thanks,
Shiv

Re: swinstall command

Joseph Loo — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:43:32 GMT

hi,

as the rest have mentioned, you may state the source (-s option) but swinstall do not allow selection of destination and it is up to the software selected destination.

not only *.depot files are eligible but as long as it is package into a depot, u may use swinstall.

regards.

Re: swinstall command

Arunvijai_4 — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:26:55 GMT

Hi Shiv,

You can't install it in /opt/abc directory since the PSF(Product Specification File) and the compilation of the product would have pointed to original destination. It is not desired to do so.

-Arun

Re: swinstall command

Mahesh Kumar Malik — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 01:39:30 GMT

Hi Shiv

swinstall will decide destination based on product bundle. Following link may be of help

http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-2824/ch01s07.html?btnPrev=%AB%A0prev

Regards
Mahesh

Re: swinstall command

Sreedhar Nathani — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 01:44:04 GMT

Hi Shiv,

You can't choose the target location with swinstall command. Those are already defined in the depot PSF files.

Incase if you want to install on a specific directory you need to recreate the depot file for your help.

This will be easy if you have only one fileset in the depot and its really difficult if you have multiple filesets in the depot

See this thread for example of installing gzip depot.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=946688

Thanks
Sreedhar

Re: swinstall command

Cem Tugrul — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 04:18:45 GMT

Shiv,
As the others mentioned you can not install
depot optional path like Windows :-(
On the other hand,your swinstall command OK.
just a little bit take care on after analyzing depot while installing depot and check the log file whether is there any warnings or error...

Good Luck,

Re: swinstall command

Muthukumar_5 — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 04:57:38 GMT

You can not redirect as like windows or linux platforms on hp-ux. Some products will define this in Product Specification File which used for swpackage (SD creation with is_relocatable attribute).

hth.