RE: HP-UX

From: Sherman, Edward <shermanej_at_eccic.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:59:02 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0037A325.20010828121051@fatcity.com>

This is just a stab in the dark:  

I have never used a \ when installing patches so try running the command on a single line
like this:  

# swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true -s /tmp/PHCO_17058.depot  

If that doesn't work and since this seems to be a SAM patch, do you have sam installed and working?
Try running sam from the command line and see if the system administrator tool works.
Otherwise I dunno. This might fail if a superseding patch was already installed.  

PHCO_17058 has been replaced by PHCO_23876 (Latest Superseding Patch) and PHCO_21187 (Best Available Patch). Try doing:  

swlist | grep PHCO  

to see if any of these later patches are already installed.  

You might want to install one of the later patches. I don't think anyone comes out with
so many patch udates like HP-UX. Anytime you see documentation that says you need to install a certain patch, that patch will have been supersceeded 2 or more times by the time you read the documentation so don't be worried about trying to install one of the supersceeding patches.    

HTH
Ed

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 12:27 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi all, this is slightly off topic, but I am trying to install 9i database on an HP-UX 11.00 box.  

I have v.v.v.v. little experience on HP-UX. This is only a test box, but going through ORACLE's install guide, it tells me I need to install various HP-UX patches using swinstall.  

Many of the patches I try to install are erroring out...  

I run the command  

# swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true \

> -s /tmp/PHCO_17058.depot
 

and get the following output:  

• 08/28/01 16:14:35 BST BEGIN swinstall SESSION (non-interactive)
  • Session started for user "root_at_ham1".
    • Beginning Selection
    • Target connection succeeded for "ham1:/". NOTE: The patch match operation failed to find patches for target software on "ham1" which passed the filter. NOTE: Cannot continue the "swinstall" task.
• 08/28/01 16:14:50 BST END swinstall SESSION (non-interactive)

Does this mean I don't need these patches??  

TIA,   Stuart

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