Installing GNU software from HP Porting Archive

[Michael Dun_1]

I've been attempting to follow the "Getting Started" directions at http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/starting.html, but can't get kickstart to install. The README states the script needs to be installed to run, but I can't locate directions to do so. Any ideas?

And will the fact that the binary is for HP 9.03 cause a problem with my 10.20 box?

[Rick Garland]

Big enough differences between 9.03 and 10.20

[Michael Dun_1]

Rick,

Do you mean that the 9.03 version absolutely won't run on the 10.20 box? The site's documentation tends to hint that it should. ["This release supports the optional creation of the /opt/hppd tree and also can be run on HP-UX 10 systems"]

However, it's the install part I'm having the most trouble with.

"Kickstart is a complex shell script that can be run any HP-UX system and will
check certain components of your system and inform you if anything is missing
or out-of-date that may be needed to build packages from our HP-UX public
domain archive.

For installation instructions, see HPUX.Install. Note that you have to install
kickstart before you can run it. Kickstart has been tested and worked on both
an HP-UX 9.03 and an HP-UX 10.01 system."

Where do I find info on "HPUX.Install"?

[Michael Dun_1]

I figured it out - I had to run make on the utility - I'd thought I could skip that step since it was already compiled. Oops!