topic Re: how to install software? in Operating System - HP-UX

how to install software?

iambluegary — Fri, 12 Apr 2002 06:50:23 GMT

i download a software /home/pin/swatch-3.0.4.tar.gz
but i cant use swinstall to install it,why?

Re: how to install software?

Clemens van Everdingen — Fri, 12 Apr 2002 06:52:31 GMT

Hi,

Because this is not a hp-ux software depot.
This is a source distribution which you should compile.
If you want to use swinstall you need a binary hp-ux version.

C.

Re: how to install software?

Emiel van Grinsven — Fri, 12 Apr 2002 06:53:27 GMT

Hi,

it's still zipped and a tar file.

use gunzip first then tar -xvf [file_name]
then swinstall (-i)

Good luck

E.

Re: how to install software?

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Fri, 12 Apr 2002 06:54:05 GMT

first unzip it

gzip -d swatch-3.0.4.tar.gz

then look what's inside the tar archive

tar tvf swatch-3.0.4.tar

if it has a .depot or a .SD, extract it

tar xf swatch-3.0.4.tar

and install it

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

HTH

Re: how to install software?

Clemens van Everdingen — Fri, 12 Apr 2002 06:54:11 GMT

Hi,

Probably there is a installation instruction in the tar package.

C.

Re: how to install software?

Clemens van Everdingen — Fri, 12 Apr 2002 06:56:07 GMT

Hi again,

To untar a gziped archieve;

gunzip -c archieve.tar.gz | tar xvf

C.

Re: how to install software?

U.SivaKumar_2 — Fri, 12 Apr 2002 06:59:54 GMT

hi,

#gunzip /home/pin/swatch-3.0.4.tar.gz
#tar xv /home/pin/swatch-3.0.4.tar

tar will extract lot of files . Usually you need not use swinstall for this type of packages , search for install or setup shell
scripts in the extracted files and run it.
note: readme file will be there among the extracted file , better to read it once.
regards,
U.SivaKumar.

Re: how to install software?

iambluegary — Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:12:23 GMT

well,i have gzip and tar the bag,but when i try to install it with:
swinstall -s /home/pin/swatch-3.0.4.deport swatch
look following:
======= 04/12/02 04:14:23 EDT BEGIN swinstall SESSION
(non-interactive)

* Session started for user "root@tsrad".

* Beginning Selection
* Target connection succeeded for "tsrad:/".
ERROR: There is currently no depot software on host "tsrad" at
location "/home/pin/swatch-3.0.4.deport". Make sure that an
absolute pathname is specified for location (beginning with
"/").
* Source connection failed for
"tsrad:/home/pin/swatch-3.0.4.deport".
WARNING: More information may be found in the daemon logfile on this
target (default location is tsrad:/var/adm/sw/swagentd.log).
* Selection had errors.

======= 04/12/02 04:14:24 EDT END swinstall SESSION (non-interactive)

what should i do

Re: how to install software?

Emiel van Grinsven — Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:14:36 GMT

Hi,

rename the file to ** depot.
use swinstall -i for an interactive session.

Are you sure it's a depot and not a product?

Hth, E

Re: how to install software?

U.SivaKumar_2 — Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:15:30 GMT

hi ,
forgive me, for typematic mistake.
use tar xvf
regards,
U.SivaKumar

Re: how to install software?

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:35:07 GMT

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

Re: how to install software?

Mateja Bezjak — Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:37:57 GMT

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

Re: how to install software?

iambluegary — Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:50:26 GMT

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

Re: how to install software?

Trond Haugen — Fri, 12 Apr 2002 08:03:05 GMT

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

Re: how to install software?

Mateja Bezjak — Fri, 12 Apr 2002 08:11:09 GMT

Hi,

The README file says:
----
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.
----
Check http://www.oit.ucsb.edu/~eta/swatch/README