Our company recently purchased a couple of rp3440 machines. They arrived with HPUX 11.11 installed. The default setup has /lib as a symbolic link to /usr/lib.

I wanted to use some of the enhanced features of GNU softare, so I went to the HP-UX Porting and Archive center and downloaded the Core Utilities, Find Utilities, VIM, Bash and Less. The install went fine. I then noticed that grep was a separate program and when I tried to install it, I got this error message.

Since the other programs installed with the symbolic link, my guess was that some of the utilities now lets swinstall see that /lib is a symbolic link to another partition. I tried to swremove the utilities and got the same error message.

Any Ideas how I can correct this trouble? Do I need to do a complete new install?

Thanx for any help.

Reinstalling the OS won't help, /lib is supposed to be a symlink to /usr/lib/. Maybe the grep package has a bug.

Thanx for the reply.

I thought it might be the grep program (actually the pcre since that needs to be installed first), but I tried installing other programs as well. None of them work and all of them give the same error. That is when I tried to un-install the ones I had already installed and swremove gives the exact same error. It does not matter which program I try to un-install, they all give the same error.

I figured that since I was able to swinstall the programs and then it broke, that maybe one of the programs I installed broke it. If i could figure out which one, I could re-install the OS and then install everything except that one.

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