JetDirect installation problems

[dictum9]

#: file HP11e134.SD
HP11e134.SD: tar file

# tar -xvf HP11e134.SD

#: ll
total 7312
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 3737600 Jul 26 17:56 HP11e134.SD
drwxr-xr-x 5 bin bin 96 Jul 26 17:56 HPNPL
drwxr-xr-x 4 root sys 96 Jul 26 17:56 catalog

#: swinstall -s /tmp/JetDirect/HP11e134.SD


takes me into swinstall with this error message:


"newops6:/tmp/JetDirect/HP11e134.SD": You do not have the required
permissions to perform this operation. Check permissions using the
"swacl" command or see your system administrator for assistance. Or,
to manage applications designed and packaged for nonprivileged mode,
see the "run_as_superuser" option in the "sd" man page.

Also tried swinstall on HPNPL dirrectory which also fails.

How exactly do I run swinstall?

The OS is 11.23

[freddy_21 · Accepted solution]

run
/sbin/init.d/swagentd stop
/sbin/init.d/swagentd start

and try to install.

tahnsk
freddy

[Bill Hassell]

You are almost there. The simplest format for swinstall (for command line usage) is:

swinstall -s

where refers to the names of the product(s) you want to install. Since the depot file is one product, you want to install everything so your correct command is:

swinstall -s /tmp/JetDirect/HP11e134.SD \*

where \* tells swinstall: select all products in the depot.

[Jonathan Fife]

Just an additional note -- depot files themselves are tar files, so you shouldn't need to untar them once they are down to the .sd or .depot extension. Hopefully the creator or distributor put the proper extensions on to begin with.

[dictum9]

freddy,

That was the trick. I tried and I tried but it only worked after I restarted the swagentd daemon. I knew these things died sometimes but I didn't realize this one hung. The bizarre thing was, I run exactly the same swinstall command on another machine, with same OS version, and it worked, but not here.

Bill Hassell

Thanks for the syntax, that was what I needed. I am going to save it.

Jonathan Fife,

Thanks for the observation about tar

[Bill Hassell]

The swgentd problem is common. If you change any networking on your system without a reboot, swagentd must be restarted.