Re: Installing WebObjects Update 5.2.4 on SOLARIS

Hi

I am not good at differenting which tar / gnutar to be used.  It is my
experience in RedHat Linux that the same problem occurred during
installation.  I remembered to trace it down, it could be due to:
1.  gnutar is not found, therefore has to symlink "tar" to gnutar
2.  the patcher.sh shell script is using gnutar options that is different
than the local gnutar e.g. it does not support "Z"
Refer to patcher.sh file, and look for key word "COMPRESS=Z".  My experience
seemed to be changing the small letter "z" did the magic.  IIRC.

Cheers

Cheong Hee

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Schweigert" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:48 AM
Subject: 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.
> --
> Ken Schweigert, Network Administrator
> Byte Productions, LLC
> (231) 946-2983 x206
>
>
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