hi all. I am trying to get webmin 1.090 to install on solaris 9. it
uncompresses to a .pkg file but i can not get the .pkg file to install with
the tool on solaris pkdadd or what ever it is.

does anyone have any experience with this problem?


tia

NM wrote:

> hi all. I am trying to get webmin 1.090 to install on solaris 9. it
> uncompresses to a .pkg file but i can not get the .pkg file to install with
> the tool on solaris pkdadd or what ever it is.
> 
> does anyone have any experience with this problem?
> 
> 
> 

Assuming  what you got is a precompiled  solaris binary for the
right target environment , SPARC or INTEL ,  packaged in a
pkgadd compatible  stream-archive.....

  it should install with

# pkgadd -d ./webadmin.pkg

if the filename is webadmin.pkg in the present directory.

this is different from how you install a pkgadd file-system-archive
that you have on say the Solaris OE cd's

If the package is in filesystem format you do :

# pkgadd -d . package-name

and pkgadd runs around in all the imediate subdirectories to see if
there is any pkginfo files in there with the desired package name in.

//Lars

Lars Tunkrans wrote:

> 
> 
> NM wrote:
> 
>> hi all. I am trying to get webmin 1.090 to install on solaris 9. it
>> uncompresses to a .pkg file but i can not get the .pkg file to install
>> with the tool on solaris pkdadd or what ever it is.
>> 
>> does anyone have any experience with this problem?
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> Assuming  what you got is a precompiled  solaris binary for the
> right target environment , SPARC or INTEL ,  packaged in a
> pkgadd compatible  stream-archive.....
> 
>   it should install with
> 
> # pkgadd -d ./webadmin.pkg
> 
> if the filename is webadmin.pkg in the present directory.
> 
> this is different from how you install a pkgadd file-system-archive
> that you have on say the Solaris OE cd's
> 
> If the package is in filesystem format you do :
> 
> # pkgadd -d . package-name
> 
> and pkgadd runs around in all the imediate subdirectories to see if
> there is any pkginfo files in there with the desired package name in.
> 
> //Lars
thanks lars, I tried it and get the folowing error's

pkgadd error:attempt to process data stream failed

-bad format in data stream table-of-contents
pkgadd error: could not proccess data stream from [path]

does this mean I have the wrong file?

thanks lars

NM <c_n_nz@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Lars Tunkrans wrote:

>> 
>> 
>> NM wrote:
>> 
>>> hi all. I am trying to get webmin 1.090 to install on solaris 9. it
>>> uncompresses to a .pkg file but i can not get the .pkg file to install
>>> with the tool on solaris pkdadd or what ever it is.
>>> 
>>> does anyone have any experience with this problem?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Assuming  what you got is a precompiled  solaris binary for the
>> right target environment , SPARC or INTEL ,  packaged in a
>> pkgadd compatible  stream-archive.....
>> 
>>   it should install with
>> 
>> # pkgadd -d ./webadmin.pkg
>> 
>> if the filename is webadmin.pkg in the present directory.
>> 
>> this is different from how you install a pkgadd file-system-archive
>> that you have on say the Solaris OE cd's
>> 
>> If the package is in filesystem format you do :
>> 
>> # pkgadd -d . package-name
>> 
>> and pkgadd runs around in all the imediate subdirectories to see if
>> there is any pkginfo files in there with the desired package name in.
>> 
>> //Lars
> thanks lars, I tried it and get the folowing error's

> pkgadd error:attempt to process data stream failed

> -bad format in data stream table-of-contents
> pkgadd error: could not proccess data stream from [path]

> does this mean I have the wrong file?

> thanks lars

Yes, you do.

Webmin for Solaris is installed by just untarring the distribution file
into an appropriate directory and running setup.sh.

BTW, 1.100 is the current release.

-- 
Jim Pennino