What to do next

[daisie]

I have finished download perl v5.6 and also have done tar them. What do I do next? Is there any documentation on direction for the installation of perl..please help

[pap]

Have you downloaded perl from HP website or from any other site?

If you have downloaded from HP site then you just have to use swinstall to install it.

Thanks,


-pap

[John Dvorchak]

I am guessing that you are new to HPUX or at least new to using swinstall of a depot file. If you downloaded a file from HP and after using tar to extract it you end up with a file that has the .depot on the end then just use swinstall to install the file:

> swinstall -s /tmp/yournewfile.depot \*

This assumes that you put the file in /tmp. Just remember that swinstall has to know the complete path to the depot file and the "\*" at the end of the command says to load it without starting an interactive session. If you just want to test it without loading it you can use the -p option that says "Preview" the swinstall session:

> swinstall -p -s /tmp/your.depot \*

Good luck

[John Poff]

Hi,

If you have downloaded the source for Perl 5.6 and you have untarred it, you should have a perl-5.6.0 directory. Go in there and you should find a file named INSTALL which will tell you how to install it. If you are going this route you'll need either the ANSI/C compiler or the gcc compiler.

Of course, if you've downloaded the HP depot of Perl, you just swinstall it as others have mentioned.

JP

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi,

Pls follow these steps:

1.- Go to any HP port to download the gnu tar software, i.e:
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Languages/perl-5.8.0/
Pls check Dependencies, In this case you need install first "libiconv", this is available on:
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Development/Libraries/libiconv-1.8/

2.- Select the correct depot version according your operating system version, if you have HP-UX 11.0 you must select:
HP-UX 11.00 PA-RISC Binary Depot (gzipped)


3.- Download the Depots and place them in binary mode in your target HP-UX host, I recommend you in /var/tmp directory.

4.- Unzip the files and, if you want, list them:
#cd /var/tmp
#gzip -d -sd-11.00.depot.gz
#swlist -s /var/tmp/-sd-11.00.depot
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "your_host_name"...
#
# Target: your_host_name:/var/tmp/-sd-11.00.depot
#

#
# No Bundle(s) on mad01h:/var/tmp/-sd-11.00.depot
# Product(s):
#


#

5.- Finally try to install them by swinstall command:
#swinstall -s /var/tmp/-sd-11.00.depot-sd-11.00.depot

Take note about the destination Path for both of them:
libiconv: /usr/local
perl-5.8.0: /usr/local

Maybe you need add manually binary and man path files into /etc/PATH (/usr/local/bin/)and /etc/MANPATH (/usr/local/man/) to work fine.


Rgds.

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi again,

You can find additional useful information about Perl-5.8.0 in:
http://www.perl.com/

Rgds.