Installing sw on hp-ux

[Manuales]

How do you install SW ?

Regards

[Fabian Briseño]

If you have a cd you have to mount it first,
or you can download software from hp and install it.

The instruction to use is swinstall
-s /

for example

swinstall -s /tmp/sw.depot

[Jonathan Fife]

You follow the installation instructions.

Could you be more specific? What are you installing? What form is it in now (depot, uncompiled source, etc)?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Manuales:

For most software, at least that which is packaged for HP-UX, you use 'swinstall' -- part of SD (software Distributer). You can learn much, much more here:

http://docs.hp.com/en/SD/index.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[DCE]

If is from HP, usually you use swinstall. This will register the software within the system, and the system keeps track of all updates and aptches applied to the software (this info is store in /var/adm/sw - which is why you NEVER delete anything there)

man swinstall for further info

Any non-HP software is installed per the vendors instructions. It could anything from a tar file to self installing application

NOTE: always install applications in a vg other than vg00. vg00 should only be for OS and OS related software

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Manuales,

Basically swinstall is the command, you just type it and it will take you into interactive mode.

Patches, you download the patch, unshar the patch and install the depot.

Software, there is codeword software that you can not download from HP, you call them and they send you the software and unproctected software which you download and then use swinstall do the the trick.

A lot more easier than any other tool that I know, it just take 10 to 15 minutes of playing with it.

Regards,

Jaime.

[inventsekar_1]

swinstall -s

or "sam" u can use.

little more specific question is better..

[Patrick Wallek]

You asked: How do you install SW ?

You read the installation manual or whatever instructions come with the software.

A lot of software is installable with HP's swinstall command. However, not everything uses that. Oracle has their own installer as do numerous other software packages.

You first and best option is to RTFM (Read The Fine Manual).

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Manuales, in keeping with the quality of your question, I'll answer it like this: "As well as I know how."

There is no other possible answer. It might be swinstall, it might be ora_install, it might be setup.exe --- there's just no way to say given the data you have (not) provided.

Patrick gave you the best possible answer at this point.

[James M Lee]

Hello,

I need to know how do I install SAM on HP-UX? It would seem having read your answers like I can run...

# swinstall -s /cdrom/.depot

with the install CDROM in the drive. I don't see any depot files on it though?

Many Thanks,
James M Lee.

[James M Lee]

OK so I am answering my own question...

I have re-installed using "64-Bit CDE HP-UX Environment" and now I have SAM. Yey!

The origional install was the 'Minimal' distribution. Is this why there was no SAM?

Many thanks,
James m Lee

[Sp4admin]

Hi Manuales,

You would mount the cdrom. use swinsatll and pick the location and the select the software to be installed.

sp,