I am new to HPUX. In our project we are using HPUX 10.20, 11.00 and 11.11.
I know some thing about software installation in HPUX.
1)softwares are clasified as "fileset", "product" and "bundle".
2)A product can contain lot of filesets and a bundle can contain lot of products.
3)The extension of the software file .depot
4) swinstall is used to install the fileset / product / bundle
5) swlist --> to list
6) swremove ---> to remove
Now i have following questions:
1)is .depot used as extenstion for fileset, product and bundl. if not what is extensions for each.
2)what is the command is used to view all filesets available with a product and all the products available with a bundel.
3)what is the command to install the fileset with exact syntax.
4)what is the command to install the whole product with exact syntax.
5)what is the command to install the some of filesets only from a whole product with exact syntax
6)what is the command to install the whole bundle with exact syntax.
7)what is the command used to install the some products only from whole bundle.
8)I want to install a product, but some of filesets available in the product have been installed already. at this situation those filesets will be overrided, if not how to override.
9)I want to install a bundle, but some of products available in the bundle have been installed already. at this situation those products will be overrided, if not how to override.
10) "swlist -l fileset" is used to list all installed filesets
9) normally there is no need to re-install, see 8)
10) correct
11) -12) swremove
It will be easier for you to use the GUI, this will build the commandline from various selection menues
Hope this helps! Regards Torsten.
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3) Typically you install whole products, not filesets. swinstall -s $PWD/depot SD-product.SD-fileset 4) swinstall -s $PWD/depot SD-product 5) Same as 3) but listing each fileset. 6) swinstall -s $PWD/depot SD-bundle 7) Same as 4) but listing each product.
8) Typically you don't want to reinstall. but you can use "-x reinstall=true". 9) See 8).
Filesets are removed depending on what depot or bundle they are a part of.
A bundle is a bunch of depots for lack of a better explanation.
Read JRF's link. Give him 10 points, its the best way to go.
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>SEP: A bundle is a bunch of depots for lack of a better explanation.
A SD bundle is just a bunch of SD products. A depot contains SD bundles and/or SD products. Inside each SD product are SD subproducts and SD filesets. And inside of SD filesets are files.
you probably won't be making much use of all of the above information however; as at least 2 of the 3 OSes mentioned have been out of support for years. 11.11 might be as well, I didn't take the time to look.
You did not say how many systems you are managing, but I have talked to several customers with aging 10.20 and 11.00 servers that still ran valuable applications. What they have been doing is setting up an Itanium server running HP-UX 11.31 and moving those applications into virtual machines.
If you do not have the source code for the applications, many have had success just running the old binraries under the ARIES translator. With source code the performance gains are just plain silly...
If you have 20+ old K-classes sucking up space and power, you should really talk to your HP rep!
CFG2HTML C.03.66.20080709 Config To HTML System Documentation Tool (cfg2html) -------------------------------------- 2.1)I have understood some things from output.
CFG2HTML --> Bundle
C.03.66.20080709 --> Version
Config To HTML System Documentation Tool --> Description
cfg2html --> available product
Am i correct?
2.2)Can one bundle contain lot of products?
2.3)what is the command is used to install whole bundle (all prodcuts)
2.4)what is the command is used to install single or some product of a bundle.
2.5)Can one .depot cotain lot of bundles?
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3)we are using following command to view the available products with in .depot
3.2)i know one product can contain lot of fileset,am i corret?
3.3)How to install a single or some filesets of a product, is it possible?
4)i understand some thing that we can install and remove products only not bundle or fileset, if no, plese give the examples.
5)we can see the product name of all installed filesets using the commad "# swlist -l fileset" like that how to view the bundle name of all installed product.
6)Actually i am using HPUX 11.11, i executed below mentioned command to view the intalled products. in the output it is showing 3 columns (1 -> productname, 2--> what is this?, 3 --> description).
3270-Common R6.11.11.100 Common files for SNAP2-3270 and TN3270 Accounting B.11.11 Accounting Asian-Core A.03.00 Asian Core Asian-PRINTER A.03.00 Asian Printer Asian-TERM A.03.00 Asian TERM Asian-UTILITY A.03.00 Asian Utility
1)is there any other extension other than .depot for hpux softwares. if yes, please give the example.
Extensions do not matter on HP-UX. There are two kinds of depots, serial and directory/network.
In a serial depot the depot is a single downloadable file. This is the form used for downloads. By convention a ".depot" extention is used, but it is not required. A serial depot can only be used when it is on the same system as the swinstall command.
The network/directory depot exists as a multi-level directory structure. These depots can be exported via swreg(1m) so that a single depot can be used by many systems at once. This is the form of most depots on media.
You can use the swcopy(1m) and swpackage(1m) commands to move between the two types.
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2) we are using following command to view the available bundles with in .depot
------------------------------------------ root@lgsna:/root > swlist -l bundle -s /root/cfg2html_hpux_3.66-20080709.depot ... Am i correct?
Yes. If you have access to an X windows display there is even the "swlist -v" option to browse the depot contents.
2.2)Can one bundle contain lot of products?
Yes, that is the point.
2.3)what is the command is used to install whole bundle (all prodcuts)
swinstall -s path-to-depot bundlename
Many options may come into play if the contents require a reboot, include patches, use NFS mounted sources... These forums are not a replacement for training or reading the documentation.
2.4)what is the command is used to install single or some product of a bundle.
Yes. One depot on your install media will have dozens.
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3.1)I have understood some things from output.
cfg2html --> Product
C.03.66.20080709 ---> Version
cfg2html ---> File set
No, that is not the fileset. That is a very lazy 1 line description. Use either "swlist -l fileset" or "swlist -l product -v" to see fileset information.
3.2)i know one product can contain lot of fileset,am i corret?
Yes, and those filesets may exist in more than one form such as the Itanium version and the PA-RISC version.
3.3)How to install a single or some filesets of a product, is it possible?
It is possible. When you think you need to please come back and explain why. When someone has to ask it is almost always the wrong answer to the wrong question. In other words, don't do that.
4)i understand some thing that we can install and remove products only not bundle or fileset, if no, plese give the examples.
A product must have at least one fileset and a fileset can only exist in a product. The bundles are optional but useful containers that can be added or removed on their own. Think of bundles as shopping bags that can hold useful things but are rather dull on their own.
5)we can see the product name of all installed filesets using the commad "# swlist -l fileset" like that how to view the bundle name of all installed product.
Products do not know or need bundles, so you need to ask the installed bundles what they contain:
# swlist -vl bundle -a contents
Try 6)Actually i am using HPUX 11.11, i executed below mentioned command to view the intalled products. in the output it is showing 3 columns (1 -> productname, 2--> what is this?, 3 --> description).
It is tag (name) revision and description. Look at the sd(4) and sd(5) man pages for details.
