swinstall interactive text mode

[Jasmin Berube]

Howcome this simple command brings me in interactive text mode?

swinstall -s /tmp/depotname.depot

I want to find a way to install without any interaction using a script. Most of the time I will be in a remote shell.

Thanks!

[Sean OB_1]

Man swinstall. It's all detailed in the man pages for swinstall.

If you don't specify the products to install it automatically takes you into interactive mode.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Because you didn't specify any targets.

Try this:

swinstall -s /tmp/depotname.depot \*

Note the escaped '*'. You may also need to -x options as well.

[Sajid_1]

hello,

check and make sure that the path is correct. Did you see any messages in swagentd.log? what about giving some options too:
# swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x match_target=true -s /tmp/depot_name.depot

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Jasmin,
define product.
For example I have netscape on remote sys1 in my home dir.

#swinstall -s remsys1:/home/sachin/netscape netscape

Thanks
Sachin

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Jasmin,

A. Clay S.'s method is the one I have used. It should work in your case.

Hai

[Craig Rants]

Jasmine,
What you can usually do if it is one patch or product then:

swinstall -s /tmp/PHKL_9000.depot PHKL_9000 \*

If you wanted to get out of the GUI and use the TUI, then enter unset DISPLAY before you run your swinstall command.

This is a script I use to install a lot of patches, the whole thing isn't there but you get the gist:

for i in `cat site.list`
do
if [ '#' != $(echo $i | cut -b1) ]
then
echo "Installing $PATCH_11 on $i"
sleep 1
$SSHBIN/ssh $i "/usr/sbin/swinstall -s DEPOTSERVER:/var/spool/sw/$PATCH_11 \*"
else
echo $i > /dev/null
fi
done

GL,
C