On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 07:10 , Shishir K. Singh wrote:
I am trying to download ActivePerl5.6.1 for solaris from active states
perl's site. However there are two options..pkgadd and AS package. What
does pkgadd mean ? Which one do I need to install ?
pkgadd is one of the tools
pkgadd is one of the tools used in the Solaris implementation
of the SYS V packages model.
cf man pkgadd
For my money - it would be simpler to use the pkgadd command
on a Solaris Box.
f also the regular suite of tools
pkginfo
pkgrm
.
if the folks at
On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 07:31 , Shishir K. Singh wrote:
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I am tried to install The AS Package for Solaris on
Solaris..however..seems tat the *.gz file is not complete. Gives a
checksum error when I try to untar it. Has anyone else had the same
problem ?
p0: which rev of
p0: which rev of Solaris are you working with?
eg: both the OS rev 5.X and the Arch - sparc XOR i386
Machine hardware: sun4u
OS version: 5.8
Processor type: sparc
Hardware: SUNW,Ultra-5_10
p1: are you using gunzip to deal with unpacking them?
gzip -d/gunzip
Looks like you got an incomplete download.
Try re-dl-ing it.
I think it wouldn't have gunzipped in the first place if the file was incomplete.
gzip -t ActivePerl-5.6.1.633-sun4-solaris.tar.gz returns success.
But just to be on the safe side, I repeated the download/unzip process 3
