Perl 5.8 install problems

[MTSU_SAN]

I've just downloaded Perl 5.8.0 depot for 11.0, and when I try to swinstall, I get ERROR: Failed installing fileset "Perl5.PERL-MAN,r=D.5.8.0.B". Check the above output for details.
for all of the filesets. Yet, if I do an swlist on the depot, they show up fine. Any suggestions? I've tried redownloading it several times.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Can you post the error messages from your /var/adm/sw/swagent.log?.

-Sri

[sinhass]

See its always better if u download the source files and compile.
-sinhass

[MTSU_SAN]

* Summary of Analysis Phase:
* 2 of 2 filesets had no Errors or Warnings.
* The Analysis Phase succeeded.


* Beginning the Install Execution Phase.
* Filesets: 2
* Files: 4510
* Kbytes: 72893
* Installing bundle "perl,r=D.5.8.0.B" .
* Installing fileset "Perl5.PERL-MAN,r=D.5.8.0.B" (1 of 2).
ERROR: Read from serial depot file failed. No such file or directory
(2).
ERROR: Read from serial depot file failed. No such file or directory
(2).
ERROR: The file "/opt/perl/html/lib/5.8.0/pod/perlos2.html" was not
loaded because it is missing from the source media.
ERROR: The file "/opt/perl/html/lib/5.8.0/pod/perlos390.html" was not
loaded because it is missing from the source media.

Are the first two.

[Robert Kerr]

After downloading, did you ftp it from another machine? If so, be sure to use "binary" mode.

[MTSU_SAN]

Yes, and I did. I know the depot is viable, or the swlist would bomb out.
frank:[/] # swlist -d @ /tmp/perl_D.5.8.0.B_HP-UX_B.11.00_32+64.depot
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "frank"...
#
# Target: frank:/tmp/perl_D.5.8.0.B_HP-UX_B.11.00_32+64.depot
#

#
# Bundle(s):
#

perl D.5.8.0.B Perl Programming Language

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

The last message looks to indicate that this depot hosts both 32bit perl and 64bit perl. Did you select either of them or chose both? And if you didn't choose, are you aware that they are very different.

FWIW if the depot still does not meet your needs, you can also fetch more recent perl precompiled binaries from my site for 10.20, 11.00, and 11.11 (11i), but they are not depots, but compressed archives. These include DBI and several other useful modules.
Specifications and installation instructions are on the site too

My HP ITRC site pages can be found at

Singapore https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/
Rotterdam http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/
Seattle http://ww.hpux.ws/merijn/

Singapore might be unreachable for another day or two, because the router broke down, and Seattle might be hampering for a day or two because it is in the middle of a machine move

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn