Solaris

What says

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file SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg

?

Try this as root from /tmp.

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pkgadd ./SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg

or

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pkgadd -d /tmp/SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg

I was having issues upgrading java and openssl on some servers, but when I ran pkgadd from the /tmp directory I had a 100% success rate.

I hope this helps

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Anther thought.
Is Solaris Studio installed on your server? Some times you need to remove the old version 1st. I had to do that when I install openssl.

Tried every varient of your suggestions and pkgadd was happy with any of them. What follows is the terminal session:

# pkgadd -d /tmp/SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg
pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </tmp/SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg>
# file /tmp/SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg
/tmp/SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg: directory
# file SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg
SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg: directory
# pkgadd -d /tmp/SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg.tar
pkgadd: ERROR: attempt to process datastream failed
- bad format in datastream table-of-contents
pkgadd: ERROR: could not process datastream from </tmp/SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg.tar>
# file /tmp/SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg.tar
/tmp/SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg.tar: USTAR tar archive extended format

In answer to your last question Solaris Studio has never been installed in this server.

Maybe the answer here is that Oracle/Sun did not set up this download for use with pkgadd eventhough it would appear that it was their intention to do so?

Try this as root.

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cd /tmp/SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg
./solarisstudio.sh

If that don't work do the steps below.

Ok do this please

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ls -ld /tmp/SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg

and this

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ls -l /tmp/SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg

post the output. If there is a readme file?

There is a possibility that you need to install it like you do for system patches.
Here is an example of how you install system patches.

Code:

unzip 10_recomended.zip
cd 10_recomended
./installpatchset  --s10patchset

The --s10patchset is a key that has be used to install the patches. There should be a readme file that will have this info if you need to do it this way. The instructions are usually near the end of the file.

Give me the output of the command below.

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tar tvf SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg.tar

Sorry to ask this but do you have the right file? Maybe you downloaded a patch and not a installer.
Sometimes all you need to do to install a program in UNIX is to untar or unzip it. What is the command to launch the program?

I hope this helps.

The Solaris Studio download page at http: //www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solarisstudio/downloads/index.html?ssSourceSiteId=ocomen
provides two different file formats: 1. SVR4 packages; 2. tar file
The benefit of a tar file is that its easy to set up (just untar wherever you want, set your path variable to the Studio bin location, and your ready to develop. The down side is that there is no way to add any patches or have the packages been officially seen by the Solaris packaging software). In both formats, the product is tar'ed and then compressed so you will need to un-compress and un-tar before doing the actual install.

Just to make it easy, I'd suggest re-downloading the file that contains the SVR4 pkg format,
which is at: http: //download.oracle.com/otn/solaris/studio/SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg.tar.bz2

and then run the command:

bzcat download_directory/SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-pkg.tar.bz2 | /bin/tar -xf -

Then you should be able to do a pkgadd of the resulting directory. Of course, pkgadd requires you to be root to do the install so be sure to do that before running the pkgadd cmd.

hope that works for you.

bitlord,
the first line in you last post did the install and at this point it seems to be ok. thanks for your your help!

studio_oracle,
i downloaded the SVR4 package from Oracle Solaris Studio Downloads, platform: Solaris 10 OS on x86, SVR4 installer on x86, ran digest to get the md5 hash which compared to the one listed on the web page and followed the steps you list in your post with the exception that I always get an error when running pkgadd. ultimately i did as bitlord suggested in the last post to get it installed...

I got the line from the install guide DukeNuke2 linked to in an earlier post.