command to uncompress the depot files

[Shivkumar]

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

[Patrick Wallek]

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.

[RAC_1]

What does following say?
file "your_file"

[sysadm_1]

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-

[Shivkumar]

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

[Rajeev Shukla]

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.

[Raj D.]

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.

[Shivkumar]

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

Is it a depot file ?

[Rajeev Shukla · Accepted solution]

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

[Nguyen Anh Tien]

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