Gzip installtion

[Anand Sreenivasan]

Hello all,
I just downloaded the latest version of gzip and it is in the format of gzip*.depot and when I try to do swinstall , It is not seeing this depot file. What am I doint wrong ?.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura · Accepted solution]

swinstall -s needs an absolute pathname, so you need to include the full path

tmp # swinstall -s /tmp/gzip.depot gzip

HTH
Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

add on to Merijn's answer, verify the depot file for corruption. You did a binary download/ftp ?

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gzip-1.3.5/

[harry d brown jr]

If it is zipped or compressed un-zip it: uncompress /FULLPATH/gzip-1.3.5-sd-11.00.depot.Z

The command is like this:

swinstall -s /FULLPATH/gzip-1.3.5-sd-11.00.depot

live free or die
harry

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

where did u download the gzip from and how do u use the command, swinstall to install?

what is the error message?

regards.

[Anand Sreenivasan]

All,
Thanks for the response, I installed it and it worked good with full path. I was trying to install through GUI. My next question is where did it install , I already had a gzip version 1.2.4 on the system and when I do which gzip i am getting the older version. Does this gets installed in /usr/contrib/bin or somewhere else. Any ideas?.

[Joseph Loo]

try:

# whereis gzip
or
# find / -name gzip -type f -exec ls -ld {} \;

regards.

[Anand Sreenivasan]

Thanks all,
I found it installed in /usr/local/bin.
Thanks again.

[Charles Holland]

I don't know if you will ever see this but right now you probably have two versions of gzip on your system. Review the following link

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=574771

I recently installed gzip 1.3.5 and had to relocate it.