[SunHELP] Patch will not install

[Luc I. Suryo]

> > > running
> > > it, installing pkgs as they fail or is there an actual dependency
> > > listing? There is none at the patches  home page:
> > 
> > as root, do a recursive chown of the patch to nobody:nobody and then 
> > attempt to run patchadd again.
> 
> Tried that. Got the same error. Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> However, I cannot for th elife of me get the dependent pkg installed.
> Here is what I do:
> 
> >From the Solaris 8 cd /cdrom/sol_8_401_sparc/s0/Solaris_8/Product. There
> is the pkg that patchadd says fails when doing checkinstall. I type:
> 
> tar -cf ~/SUNWcarx.tar ./SUNWcarx.u
> 
> and then gzip the file. I ftp it to the server I need to install it on
> and gunzip and untar the folder. I type: 'pkgadd -d SUNWcarx.u'. Here is
> the output:
> 
> pkgadd -d SUNWcarx.u
> pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </export/home/adm/SUNWcarx.u>

it's pkgadd -d . SUNWcarx.u

or start do pkgadd -d . and it will (should fine) ANY available packages
and as you have indicated it was copies in your ome dir so there should
only be one package visible

hope this help


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Kind regards,
Luc Suryo

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