HELP! swinstall question

[Shahril M]

Hi folks,

Shame on me, but I have always struggled with swinstall.

I am to install a new version of perl, and I got this file from another server:
perl_D.5.8.0.A_HP-UX_B.11.00_32.depot

I tried swinstall w/o params, chose Local Directory, and specified the path where the file is residing. I get the flwg error:

There is currently no depot software on host "ixos2" at location"/opt/perl5.6".

I ran
#file perl_D.5.8.0.A_HP-UX_B.11.00_32.depot
and got:
perl_D.5.8.0.A_HP-UX_B.11.00_32.depot: tar file

Is it supposed to be a depot? How do I proceed?


TIA,
Shahril

[Joseph Loo · Accepted solution]

Hi,

for example,

# swinstall -s /tmp/perl_D.5.8.0.A_HP-UX_B.11.00_32.depot

please remember to ran the above at / path and not in /tmp.

# swlist -l depot
to check if any depot is created

regards.

[Denver Osborn]

to install, login as root and run

swinstall -s /tmp/perl_D.5.8.0.A_HP-UX_B.11.00_32.depot \*

Replace "/tmp" with where you saved the .depot file. Yes, `file perl_D.5.8.0.A_HP-UX_B.11.00_32.depot` should return "tar file"

-Denver