On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:35:19 -0700, Rod Miller wrote:

> 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>

pkgad -d .

Will suffice
(sorry about late reply)

Or pkgadd -d . SUNWmoznav

(<space>dot<space> is the key

>
>
>
>
>>>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

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