I am having trouble installing some HPUX patches on my B1000 11.11. I am a novice
at this so bear with me. I understand how to install depots. Very easy.

Now I'm trying to patch my system so I can get the Oracle client installed.
Oracle says I need these two patches: PHCO_23770, PHCO_23092
I go to: http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/downloadPage.do find
the patches and download them including all their dependences. I pick " download a script that will ftp the patches"
and then I run this script on my HP box. It creates the helper files. I run the get script and it
gets the files. I then run the create_depot_hp-ux_11 script and it creates a bunch of files
and a depot directory. Now, according to the README_hp-ux file, all I have to do from here is
run swinstall and pick my depot directory it created. (which is on /db01/depots/depot).

I do this and it says:
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Currently, there are no products on this source which are compatible with the target.
Therefore, no products are shown.
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I've played around with this for 3 hours now and I've google'd it to death. I just don't understand
what I'm doing wrong. I am currently going insane and am very depressed....
Thanks for any help you can provide.

Try:

swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true -s some.depot

Here is what I get when I try that:
# swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true -s /d01/depots/PHCO_21187.depot

======= 04/14/05 16:09:53 MDT BEGIN swinstall SESSION
(non-interactive) (jobid=hp-0111)

* Session started for user "root@hp".

* Beginning Selection
* Target connection succeeded for "hp:/".
NOTE: The patch match operation failed to find patches for target
software on "hp" which passed the filter.
NOTE: Cannot continue the "swinstall" task.

======= 04/14/05 16:09:55 MDT END swinstall SESSION (non-interactive)
(jobid=hp-0111)

In your first post you mentioned HP-UX 11.11 and you mentioned two patches: PHCO_23770, PHCO_23092. Which of those two patches do you expect to be residing in a depot called "/d01/depots/PHCO_21187.depot"?

When I look at PHCO_21187 in HP's database I see "s700_800 11.00 cumulative SAM/ObAM patch". If you really are running 11.11, swinstall is correctly refusing to install the patch.

edit: I decided to look up the patches you say you want installed:

PHCO_23770 -- s700_800 11.00 libc cumulative patch
PHCO_23092 -- s700_800 11.00 libc cumulative header file patch

This is all 11.0 stuff.... you can't install this stuff on a 11.11 system.

That was it. I knew I should have taken a break. I kept seeing 11.0 but in some places on the HP site, I saw it as 11.X. So, I was confused.

I read some oracle threads and they had the old 11.0 patches posted.

Thanks so much for your help. It's working now.