Non-interactive swinstall

[dev44]

Hi

I have a depot file lsof.depot and I want to install it without going into the menu. Is that possible? THe command I use is : swinstall -s /lsof.depot but this still brings me to the menu where you have to mark it for install, etc. I want to be able to just install that software from a script on a bunch of sysems.

thanks

[Patrick Wallek]

Add a '\*' to the end of your swinstall command line.

# swinstall -s /path/to/lsof.depot \*

The '\*' tells swinstall to install everything in the depot. Without that, swinstall does not know what you want to install. That is why it takes you into the menu.

[Mel Burslan · Accepted solution]

swinstall -s /absolute/path/to/your/lsof.depot lsof

this should do it.
make sure the depot location is given in absolute path and the command above assumes the product name in the depot you want to install is "lsof" if it is something different, like it has a version number or what-not, make sure you specify the exact name.

HTH

[dev44]

THanks Mel, that was exactly what I needed!