On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 13:26:15 -0700, Rod Miller wrote:

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> Bruce D Porter wrote:
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>> On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:35:19 -0700, Rod Miller wrote:
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>>>Bruce D Porter wrote:
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>>>>On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:58:55 -0700, Rod Miller wrote:
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>>>>>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
>>
>>
> Didn't work:
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> <root: 37> pkgadd -d . SUNWmozmail
> pkgadd: ERROR: no package associated with <SUNWmozmail> <root: 38> pwd
> /apps/mozilla1.4
> <root: 39> pkgadd -d .
>
> The following packages are available:
> 1 SUNWTiff libtiff - library for reading and writing TIFF
> (sparc) 6.4.1.40,REV=0.2002.12.09
> 2 SUNWj3rt J2SDK 1.4 runtime environment
> (sparc) 1.4.2,REV=2003.09.16.20.27
> 3 SUNWjpg jpeg - The Independent JPEG Groups JPEG software
> (sparc) 6.4.1.40,REV=0.2002.12.09
> 4 SUNWmozgm Mozilla for Solaris(TM) - Gnome Integration
> (sparc) 1.4,REV=10.2004.04.16
> 5 SUNWpng PNG - Portable Network Graphics library
> (sparc) 6.4.1.40,REV=0.2002.12.09
>
> Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process all packages).
> (default: all) [?,??,q]: q <root: 40>
>
Pass


> Rod
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>>>>>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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