topic Re: Non-interactive swinstall in Operating System - HP-UX

Non-interactive swinstall

dev44 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:23:14 GMT

Hi

I have a depot file lsof.depot and I want to install it without going into the menu. Is that possible? THe command I use is : swinstall -s /lsof.depot but this still brings me to the menu where you have to mark it for install, etc. I want to be able to just install that software from a script on a bunch of sysems.

thanks

Re: Non-interactive swinstall

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:25:41 GMT

Add a '\*' to the end of your swinstall command line.

# swinstall -s /path/to/lsof.depot \*

The '\*' tells swinstall to install everything in the depot. Without that, swinstall does not know what you want to install. That is why it takes you into the menu.

Re: Non-interactive swinstall

Mel Burslan — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:26:40 GMT

swinstall -s /absolute/path/to/your/lsof.depot lsof

this should do it.
make sure the depot location is given in absolute path and the command above assumes the product name in the depot you want to install is "lsof" if it is something different, like it has a version number or what-not, make sure you specify the exact name.

HTH

Re: Non-interactive swinstall

dev44 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:39:56 GMT

THanks Mel, that was exactly what I needed!