software download

[navin]

Hi ,I'm trying to download an individual patch from patch database. it is giving me an option as download via http or ftp..but on either of these the download is getting saved as a html file or a text file.Please straight me out , how should i download a patch . I have never encountered a problem before as i used to download a patch bundles.
Thanks

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Navin,

Just use the save as button in your browser and save it to your pc, then send ftp it to your server and set the execute permissions on it.

Regards,

Jaime.

[Patrick Wallek]

Either way should actually work.

Just download the file to your PC with whatever name you want. Then transfer it to your HP-UX box (make sure to use BIN mode if you do an FTP). Then once on the HP-UX box do a 'sh ' to generate the PH??_?????.text and PH??_?????.depot files.

[siva0123]

Navin,

After selecting the patch , Choose the server group, If you are downloading from india , use Singapore Server in point no 1

Then
Choose either ZIp, or tar options from point 2.

Click on Download button on point 3.

It should ask you where to save the patch , give the location somewhere in your PC.

Then you can tranfer these patches from your PC to the UNIX box thru ftp.

Then untar it or Unzip it.

Then you can go for swinstall


Thanks,
Siva

[Victor Fridyev]

I prefer to use a shell script which downloads needed patches - the latest option in the menu.

You down load a script onto your PC, ftp it to a HPUX machin and run the script. If your HPUX servers are permitted to ftp files from Internet, this is the safest option.
Look on README file after the patches are downloaded for details.

HTH

[siva0123]

Navin,

What ever i said applies if you are going to downlaod multiple patches .

I hope you will be downlaoding multiple patches as you may be having some dependents also to be downlaoded.

If not you can directly save it to your PC and FTP to the unix box in binary mode as suggested in earlier replies.

Thanks,
Siva

[siva0123]

Apologies
You can even downlaod individual patches in tar or zip format.

There is button called " Expand to view additional download options at the first part of the page.

Click on it and it will give you tha options for tar or Zip.

Thanks,
Siva

[Paul Sperry]

This is good news to me. I had the same problem yesterday. But as mentioned:

There is button called " Expand to view additional download options at the first part of the page.

Click on it and it will give you tha options for tar or Zip. Then the download button will pop up a save button.

[navin]

Hello,
Thanks so much for your answers, but i do see only an option download via http and ftp.If i click on it ,it opens in a notepad.
what am i missing.please help.

[Patrick Wallek]

Right-click on the HTTP button and select "Save Link As" (or whatever the equivalent is in your browser).

[siva0123 · Accepted solution]

Navin,

Just scroll the page slightly upwards , in the right hand corner above the options

1.Default Server loaction
2.Asia pacific customers blah blah ,


You will have that link in pink colour i hope

:Expand for additional download options"
Click on it

Now you will see below the server options
4 more as point no 3 for tar , zip , gzip and one more donr remember .

Select any one of them and save it to your PC and then ftp to the machine.


Hope i 've explained as much as possible.

Here on it is up to you how you discover that Expand option ;-)

Thanks,
Siva

[siva0123]

Remember after clicking on the expand button the options for tar , zip etc will not appear next to the http or ftp options ,

But below the server selection otion :-)

Above the patch listing part.

Hope that too helps.

Thanks,
Siva