UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, guys !
I usually run this task without even thinking on outcome, because it never failed. But this time when I tried installation of patches for Solaris 8 OS on my old machine, I received this message:

"pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </var/spool/pkg>"

I compared the contents of /var/spool/pkg with machines I worked on previosly, and the folder is also empty on them, but patches are installed ok.

Any good ideas what I need to check?

Another thing: I faced strange problems with packages when I failed to install the Sun Studio 8 software on this machine. For some reason the installation fails, and I wonder if any of you have had this problem, or might have some ideas what I could do to install the sw ?

Here is the error message I receive:

Extracting the tar files...
Do you want to remove the download tar files? [y/n]: n
Move download tar files to ./save_tarfiles directory.
./installer[517]: cd: bad argument count
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: install_j2se


Thanks !

Hi, guys !
I usually run this task without even thinking on outcome, because it never failed. But this time when I tried installation of patches for Solaris 8 OS on my old machine, I received this message:

"pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </var/spool/pkg>"

I compared the contents of /var/spool/pkg with machines I worked on previosly, and the folder is also empty on them, but patches are installed ok.

Any good ideas what I need to check?

Another thing: I faced strange problems with packages when I failed to install the Sun Studio 8 software on this machine. For some reason the installation fails, and I wonder if any of you have had this problem, or might have some ideas what I could do to install the sw ?

Here is the error message I receive:

Extracting the tar files...
Do you want to remove the download tar files? [y/n]: n
Move download tar files to ./save_tarfiles directory.
./installer[517]: cd: bad argument count
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: install_j2se


Thanks !

Deicide5997,
Please do cross post in different forums. I have merged your threads.

You use patchadd to install patches, not pkgadd.
If it is a package you are trying to install, run:

Code:

# pkgadd -d . yourpackage.pkg

in the same directory your package is.

My bad.
I have actually tried both. THe initial problem was of course when I tried 'patchadd'. Here is the error message I received:

root# patchadd 108434-15

/usr/sbin/patchadd[10]: cd: bad argument count
Usage: basename [ path [ suffix-pattern ] ]


So the strange thing is in both cases (patchadd and installation of SunStudio8) I receive the "cd: bad argument count" thing. What could that mean ?
Any ideas ?
D

This is not correct. To install a streamed package in the same directory the command is :

Code:

pkgadd -d PKGname.pkg [ PKGname | all ]

to install a filesystem package the command is

Code:

pkgadd -d . [ PKGname | all ]