Rookie Questions, again...

[Scott Painter_1]

Don't know if this is the right place to ask this, but didn't see anywhere else it seemed to fit. I'm trying to install XV on some workstations, and have found where to get the pre-compiled versions, but I was wondering if anybody has installed it before and if they could provide me a bare boned set of instructions. Issues that are still confusing to me:

TIFF, JPEG, and other libraries: what are "libraries" and do they have to be installed (if so, how do I do that) before XV can be installed.

What other things might I need to install beforehand?

Also, is there anything that can go wrong while installing them? The reason I ask is because, despite my pleadings, I still can't get the cash approved to buy us a NAS filer or a backup tape system. I'd be more than happy if the database crashed and lost all the data so they'll learn their lesson, but I want it to do it on it's own rather than because of something I've done.

[harry d brown jr]

Scott,

You will need to INSTALL these BEFORE installing XV:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/X11/Graphics/jpeg-6b/

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Misc/zlib-1.1.4/

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/X11/Graphics/tiff-3.5.7/

IN that order. I beleive you also need X11, but you should already have that.

live free or die
harry

[Dave Chamberlin]

I have installed xv several times . The only problem I have had is that the version I downloaded had tiff-3.5, but xv was looking for tiff-3.4/lib/libtiff.sl at runtime. I created directory tiff-3.4/lib and put a link in there to point to the 3.5 version of libtiff.sl. It worked fine afterwards. Just download the software depots and gunzip them. Then use swinstall to install all 4 items.

[Scott Painter_1]

Thanks for the help. I'll give it a shot tomorrow. Again though, what are libraries and what are they used for. Also, what's the definition of a depot and which one of the four (or do I download all four) of the links that are up on the site do I need to download?

Thanks again.

[harry d brown jr]

Scott,

EACH one of the DOWNLOADS is a seperate DEPOT, and is installed separately.

The order is this:


http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/X11/Graphics/jpeg-6b/

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Misc/zlib-1.1.4/

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/X11/Graphics/tiff-3.5.7/

THEN XV.

live free or die
harry

[Scott Painter_1]

Gracias, will try tomorrow.

[Sean Davis]

Libraries: C programs are written using functions. These functions are simply groupings of C programming commands. The functions can be used by various programs, however individual programs may differ in how they wish to use the function. Therefore, the programmers used definition files called libraries. Libraries are typically installed in /usr/lib/ with a lib prefix and a .a suffix

Depots: Software installations on an HP-UX system are typically written to be installed by the swinstall utility (which comes with HP-UX). The swinstall utility looks for software in directories which are created by the user when unsharing or unpackaging the software. After unpackaging the software you use the swcopy utility to place the software in a depot. The swinstall utility will then recognize that directory as a depot and use it as a source for your software installation. For more information see the man pages for swinstall and swcopy.

Good Luck,
Sean

[Steve Steel]

Hi

FYI as a source of info

http://www.techtarget.com/

select hp

select search HP

ask your question

even word libraries gives good stuff from HW to SW


steve Steel

[Scott Painter_1]

Thanks for all the help and input from everyone! I'm in the process of trying to sort thru installation instructions now and readme files. Once I get it figured out and up and running, I'll go back and hit the points up for everybody's responses. Thanks again for everybody's willingness to help!!!

Scott

[Scott Painter_1]

Harry,

How do I install those libraries? The HPUX.Install file for the jpeg-6b doesn't mention swinstall, it mentions compiling with gcc version 3.1. I guess I need that first huh? I was looking at installing that before, but didn't quite grasp how I was supposed to do that either. If and when I get that compiler installed, then I see the instructions on how to compile, test, and install this library. Also, how can I tell if that library is already installed on the workstation? We can already make jpg and tif files thru SDRC so I'm thinking that they should be.