Bruce D Porter wrote:

> On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:58:55 -0700, Rod Miller wrote:
>
>
>>I am attempting to install Sun's distribution of Mozilla1.4 on my OW/SOL
>>8/ Ultra5. All I want to do is pop mail and browse. An associate runs it
>>ok on OW and says I don't need gnome et al if I'm not going to be
>>compiling it.
>>
>>Sooooo, I hacked the install script, mozinstall, to install just the
>>Mozilla packages SUNWmozgm SUNWmozmail SUNWmoznav SUNWmozchat.
>>
>>The install of SUNWmozgm works. The others fail with the message
>>
>>pkgadd: ERROR: no package associated with <SUNWmozmail>
>>
>>When I run pkgadd in the directory that contains the above packages in
>>subdirectories, it only picks up SUNWmozgm.
>>
>>So for some reason the others are not considered valid packages.
>>
>
> Are they files or dirs ?
> What syntax are you using for pkgadd ?
>
root: 29> pwd
/apps/mozilla1.4
<root: 30> ls -l *mozchat *moznav *mozmail
SUNWmozchat:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 rod staff 512 Apr 15 23:12 install/
-rw-r--r-- 1 rod staff 420 Apr 15 23:12 pkginfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 rod staff 964 Apr 15 23:12 pkgmap
drwxr-xr-x 3 rod staff 512 Apr 15 23:12 reloc/

SUNWmozmail:
total 14
drwxr-xr-x 2 rod staff 512 Apr 15 23:12 install/
-rw-r--r-- 1 rod staff 405 Apr 15 23:12 pkginfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 rod staff 3423 Apr 15 23:12 pkgmap
drwxr-xr-x 3 rod staff 512 Apr 15 23:12 reloc/

SUNWmoznav:
total 70
drwxr-xr-x 2 rod staff 512 Apr 15 23:12 install/
-rw-r--r-- 1 rod staff 470 Apr 15 23:12 pkginfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 rod staff 32495 Apr 15 23:12 pkgmap
drwxr-xr-x 3 rod staff 512 Apr 15 23:12 reloc/
<root: 31> ls -l
[snip]

drwxr-xr-x 4 rod staff 512 Apr 15 23:12 SUNWmozchat/
drwxr-xr-x 4 rod staff 512 Apr 15 23:12 SUNWmozgm/
drwxr-xr-x 4 rod staff 512 Apr 15 23:12 SUNWmozmail/
drwxr-xr-x 4 rod staff 512 Apr 15 23:12 SUNWmoznav/
[snip]
<root: 32> pkgadd -d /apps/mozilla1.4 SUNWmozmail
pkgadd: ERROR: no package associated with <SUNWmozmail>
<root: 33>



>>
>>I obtained the packages via ftp through Netscape, then unzipped the tar
>>archive file, and unpacked the file with no problems so I don't think
>>there is anything wrong with the files. The top level directories for
>>SUNWmozgm and SUNWmozmail both contain the same set of files. The pkgmap
>>file for SUNWmozmail contains lines with keywords postinstall and
>>preremove that aren't in the pkgmap file for SUNWmozgm, FWIW.
>>
>>Any thoughts or suggestions on what to look for? A better place to take
>>this problem?
>>
>
> Have you thought about using the packages from http://www.blastwave.org ?
> Version 1.7.3
>
>
No but I will check it out.


Thanks,

Rod