swinstall failed

[David_367]

Hi All,

when I did a swinstall, the system complained the following errors:
"WWW:/var/spool/sw/libiconv-1.9-sd-100.depot": You do not have the required permissions to perform this operation.
Check permissions using the "swacl" command or see your system administrator for assistance. Or, to manage applications designed and packaged for nonprivileged mode, see the
"run_as_superuser" option in the "sd" man page.

what should I do?

Thanks in advance

David

[Stefan Farrelly]

Normally this error indicates an error on the swinstall command line or a corrupt download file/invalid source.

Verify you can list the source first;
swlist -s WWW:/var/spool/sw/libiconv-1.9-sd-100.depot

If it didnt work then your source doesnt exist.
If it did work then your swinstall command should be something like;

swinstall -s WWW:/var/spool/sw/libiconv-1.9-sd-100.depot \*

[Michael Steele_2]

This is a GNU package for 'ibiconv', a character set conversion library. Review the installation instructions, which don't include 'swinstall':

Installation:

As usual for GNU packages:

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ make install

http://hpux.petech.ac.za/hppd/hpux/Development/Libraries/libiconv-1.9/readme.html

http://hpux.petech.ac.za/hppd/hpux/Development/Libraries/libiconv-1.9/

[Karthik S S]

Hi,
I guess you are trying to install the S/W from a remote machine ( WWW ). On the remote system run
swacl -l host

and check for the permissions.

Regards,
Karthik

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

If it is truly a SD depot, you can also try restarting the swagentd:

/sbin/init.d/swagentd stop
/sbin/init.d/swagentd start


Pete

[Armin Feller]

restart swagentd:

# ps -ef|grep swagentd
# kill -9
# swagentd -r

That should fix the problem.

[K.Vijayaragavan.]

Ensure /var/depot is intact. May be, you can see the bdf command output. See the command output of lvdisplay -v logical_volume_for_var>.

Sometimes this error is encountered due to missig files & corupted file system also.