PGP Installation on hpux 11.0

[Youlette Etienne_2]

I am trying to gunzip and tar -xvf on the PGP file as follows:

gzip -d < PGPcmdln_6.5.8_HPUX_FW.tar.gz | tar xvf -

as indicated in the instructions. However, the pgp-6.5.8/ directory is not created. Instead I get the following files:

PGPcmdln_6.5.8.HPUX_FW.tar
PGPcmdln_6.5.8_HPUX_FW.tar.gz
PGPcmdln_6.5.8_HPUX_FW.tar.gz.WhatsNew.htm
WhatsNew.txt

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Youlette

[Martin Johnson · Accepted solution]

Do a "tar -tvf PGPcmdln_6.5.8.HPUX_FW.tar" to check the contents. I believe you just need to cd what you want the top level directory to be (/opt?) and untar this file.

I have an older verion of PGP and that was what I had to do.

HTH
Marty

[Youlette Etienne_2]

Okay, apparently I had to perform gunzip and tar -xvf again on the above files that I unzipped and untarred already.

5 points for your help Martin and 2 for making fun of my previously encrypted message.

thanx

[Michael Burbury]

Hi all,

Once you have un-tarred the packages, place the "pgp" binary (about 524Kb) in a place where it can be used with execute permission, then in the ".profile" for each user account you want to use it, setup PGP_PATH=/path/to/binary or whereever your directory is that contain the pgp binary. This is also where it will maintain it's public/private key databases, so if you want multiple users to have different pgp databases, use PGP_PATH to say where you want it for each user and add the pgp binary to the PATH.
Also, if you are scripting it, don't forget the "+batchmode" directive on it's command line so it will not prompt for user input.