Swinstall Can't Find Depot

[Scott Buckingham]

I've downloaded the latest and greatest version of STM for HP-UX 11.00 and I've copied the depot file into /var/spool/sw. However, when I try to install it through the swinstall program (swinstall -s /var/spool/sw), I receive this message:
"There is currently no depot software on host "hostname" at location /var/spool/sw"
How come?

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

Easiest way:

swinstall -s /var/spool/sw/DEPOTNAME

live free or die
harry

[Steven E. Protter]

swinstall -s /full_path_of_stm.depot \*

You need to tell swinstall not where its going but where its coming from

SEP

[RAC_1]

swagentd -r
swinstall -s hostname:/var/spool/sw/depot_name

Anil

[Jeroen Peereboom]

As said by the others, use swinstall -s .

You copied the depot file? What do you mean by that? Usually /var/spool/sw is a depot containing software, so not containing depot-files. A depot file is a depot in itself.

Try and move your STM-depot-file from /var/spool/sw to a file in a different location, e.g. /tmp/stm.depot and then run swinstall -s /tmp/stm.depot.

Another possibility, but I think the error message is different in that case: the depot contains no software suitable for the HW and SW version of your system.

JP.

[Scott Buckingham]

Thanks to one and all! I was expecting swinstall to provide me with a list of depot files so I could select which one I wanted.

Harry gets the 10 points for being the first responder, everyone else gets 9's though!

Thanks again!

[Matti_Kurkela]

"...downloaded the latest and greatest version of STM..."

I take it you have the depot in the form of a single .depot file?

That is a so-called "tape depot". You can install it locally, but you can't do remote installs from it unless you convert it to a "directory depot" with swcopy.

To install a tape depot locally (which you seem to be trying to do) the command should have the full pathname of the .depot file, _with the filename included_. Like this:
swinstall -s /path/to/latest_and_greatest/STM.depot

You could also go to the swinstall UI, pick "Change Source", select "Local Tape" and enter the full path to the .depot file as the device name. Not exactly intuitive, but it works.