hp-ux web server suite - depot install fails

[Mark S. Kolich]

Hello Everyone,

I have a Visualize C240 running HP-UX 11.11. For a weekend project I tired to install the hp-ux web-server suite.

I downloaded the depot, and ran 'cksum' to verify that I received the file correctly. The checksum was perfect, and matched the web-site I got the depot from. However, when I run swinstall to install the package, the install process suspends itself due to an "internal error." According to the swinstall log-file, a "GETTING_STARTED" file is unavailable in the depot.

Am I getting this error b/c I renamed the depot file, or is my system missing a dependency? Maybe the depot isn't packaged correctly...which means this is a HP Software Depot problem?

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

Regards,
Mark

[Denver Osborn]

check that the hostname is able to be resolved without any problems.

# nslookup hostname <- is the ip correct?
# nslookup ip_addre <- right hostname?

If the lookups are using DNS, change it so that it uses /etc/hosts 1st.

# vi /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue] dns

After making changes and verify the /etc/host file contains good info for this box, restart the swagent daemon and try again.

# swagentd -r

Hope this helps,
-denver

[Mark S. Kolich]

I don't have the box plugged in to any network, nor is the ethernet configured. I was hoping to just use the server as a local machine development tool to play around with JSP and Apache.