Re: Installing WebObjects Update 5.2.4 on SOLARIS

On Mar 10, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Vicky C. Miller wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I'm attempting to install the WebObjects Update 5.2.4 on SOLARIS.  I
> installed
> <ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/sparc/8/tar-1.21-sol8-sparc- 
> local.gz
>> tar-1.21-sol8-sparc-local.gz, which is the GNU version of tar and  
>> it is
> installed in  /usr/local.  What is being installed are tar  
> directories.  I
> downloaded patcher.sh and WO524Solaris.tar.tar and placed them in  
> the /tmp
> directory on the Sun server.  When I run the command:
>
>   sh patcher.sh - install WO524.tar (the file name is shortened   
> when I copy
> it to the server),
>
> I get the error: "*** ERROR *** gnutar not in path".  Does anyone  
> know how
> to get around this?


I'm not a Solaris guy, but I would guess that the directory in which  
you installed 'gnutar' is not actually in your path, as stated in the  
error.  If it were me, this is what I would do:

Kens-iMac-G5:~ ken$ echo $PATH
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ 
local/mysql/bin:/Users/ken/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/ 
local/mysql-standard-4.1.14-apple-darwin8.2.0-powerpc-64bit/bin:/usr/ 
X11R6/bin
Kens-iMac-G5:~ ken$ PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/gnutar
Kens-iMac-G5:~ ken$ echo $PATH
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ 
local/mysql/bin:/Users/ken/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/ 
local/mysql-standard-4.1.14-apple-darwin8.2.0-powerpc-64bit/bin:/usr/ 
X11R6/bin:/usr/local/gnutar
Kens-iMac-G5:~ ken$

Obviously modifying '/usr/local/gnutar' to be whatever directory it  
installed in to.

You could also symlink the actual binary to a directory that is in  
your PATH, too.

HTH.
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