Software install

[HPUX SysAdm]

How should I go about installing the software whose .depot file resides in a dir on the server. It would be great if I could get some sort of checklist on how to go about doing this.

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[Patrick Wallek]

You use swinstall.

Say you have a depot named software.depot and it is in /dir/hpstuff. To install it you would do:

# swinstall -s /dir/hpstuff/software.depot \*

# man swinstall

for details on the swinstall command.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

# swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true -s /path_to_depot_file \*

Regards!

...JRF...

[HPUX SysAdm]

Okay I am really unsure what to say or describe my issue but there's just a file in a directory that's not a depot for ex.

- the file is called xpdf.depot
- xpdf.depot resides in the /tmp dir
- /tmp isn't a depot as it doesn't show up in the output of "swlist -l depot".

Based on the above info how should I proceed?
Does that make any sense or am I totally confused?

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi (again):

You need to specify the absolute path to the depot:

# swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true -s /tmp/xpdf.depot \*

Regards!

...JRF...

[HPUX SysAdm]

Works like a charm!!!

[HPUX SysAdm]

Kudos to James!