Re: Install CSDK and other Packages

Abhishek Mathur wrote: > Hello Thomas, > I tried to use the same link that you have given me below, and it > works just fine. I do not have a Slackware 9.1 system at my end, but I am > pretty that this not so much to do with the system, but more to do with > the download, and the file that you have. Also maybe the method you are > using to extract. Just ensure that the file you downloaded is complete, > and you did not face a network broken issue. The size of my download is -- > > > 69498880 Oct 16 08:59 clientsdk.2.81.UC2.LINUX.tar > Follow the following steps -- > 1. extract the above tar file using -- tar xvf > clientsdk.2.81.UC2.LINUX.tar > this should result in one cpio - csdk.cpio and one doc directory. > 2. extract the cpio using -- cpio -icvdumB < csdk.cpio > This results in the following files - clientsdkcontent.cpio, > gls.cpio, installclientsdk, install_gls, install_msg, message.cpio > YOU DO NOT NEED TO EXTRACT THESE OTHER CPIO FILES. Just install > the product using installclientsdk after having the INFORMIXDIR set. > > 3. set the INFORMIXDIR, and use %./installcliendsdk as super user, to > install the product. > > I do not see the errors that you are seeing. Please ensure that > there is enough space on your TMP (typically /tmp). The installation at my > > end goes on fine. Just make sure that the file size is OK, and the > download did not end prematurely. Also, try using the above command to > extract the cpio file. Remember the other cpio like message.cpio, gls.cpio > > need not be extracted. The installation does it on its own. > > Hope this helps. Please let me know if you still face some issues. Yes, > just as a consolation, this product does address the errno problem, (only > after you get it to install though! ) . > > Thanks and Regards, > Abhi. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > There are 10 kinds of people,,,,, > .... those who understand binary notations, and those who don't. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Abhishek: Thanks for your note. What I had to do was unpack the package on a Solaris machine, extract all the cpio archives, tar those archives, make a tar out of the whole thing, copy it to my Slackware machine, and install it. It installed, but -- it doesn't work. I keep getting error messages about byfill being previously defined. Nuts to this, I've reinstalled 7.30 and it works and my own ESQL/C programs compile and work, so to heck with it. I can't use Art Kagel's utilities, but I'll live. The problem is GNU cpio does NOT work properly with the cpio archives in the download files (which could, by the way, be gzipped and it wouldn't hurt anything). So, for now, I'll wait until somebody else works out the bugs... Thanks again. Thomas