topic Re: command to uncompress the depot files in Operating System - HP-UX

command to uncompress the depot files

Shivkumar — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:58:42 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to unzip a file having extension
abc_depot.gz. I gave the command $gzip -d abc_depot.gz

I am executing the above command on hpux 11.00.

But it is me giving error.

Is there some other command to uncompresss the above compressed depot files ?

Thanks,
Shiv

Re: command to uncompress the depot files

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:03:37 GMT

Since you don't give the error it is very hard to tell what the problem is.

BUT, chances are that the download did not complete successfully. The first thing I would try is to download the depot again. The site you downloaded from should give byte counts and possibly checksums for the files. Verify that those are correct after the download.

Re: command to uncompress the depot files

RAC_1 — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:28:59 GMT

What does following say?
file "your_file"

Re: command to uncompress the depot files

sysadm_1 — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:41:30 GMT

DOwnload the file again

try gunzip filename.gz

or you can unzip using winrar or winzip the file from windows and ftp to server.

-sysadm-

Re: command to uncompress the depot files

Shivkumar — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:09:07 GMT

Here is the error:-

[sksonkar@bigguy:/home/sksonkar]$ gzip -d tusc-7.8-hppa-11.11.depot.gz

gzip: tusc-7.8-hppa-11.11.depot.gz: not in gzip format

Re: command to uncompress the depot files

Rajeev Shukla — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:16:23 GMT

This could be only because of 2 reasons.
1. The downloaded file is not a complete file (try downloading it again)
2. The file is not a zip file, do
file "file_name" to see the fowmat of the file. Sometimes the file is already in depot format but named as .gz in which case you could just rename the file and start your installation.

Re: command to uncompress the depot files

Raj D. — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:35:17 GMT

Hi Shiv ,

Check the file format using the 'file' command. If it lists as a gzip format , you can uncompress it.

# gunzip filename.gz

or

# gzip -d filenma.gz

Else you need to re-download if its seems to be corrupt or broken gzip.

Cheers,
Raj.

Re: command to uncompress the depot files

Shivkumar — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:46:39 GMT

$ file tusc-7.8-hppa-11.11.depot.gz
tusc-7.8-hppa-11.11.depot.gz: tar file

Is it a depot file ?

Re: command to uncompress the depot files

Rajeev Shukla — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:58:24 GMT

Hi Shiv,

Thats right, its a depot file. You could rename the file to filename.depot instead of filename.depot.gz and start your installation.
Alternatively depot files can be seen by doing tar tvf .. have a try

Re: command to uncompress the depot files

Nguyen Anh Tien — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:49:16 GMT

Just rename your file to .depot file
#mv abc_depot.gz abc_depot.depot
then install it
#swinstall -s $PWD/abc_depot.depot
That's all
HTH