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Name: chris
Date: October 24, 2001 at 20:01:04 Pacific
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I recently installed solaris 7 on a sparc20 and pkgadd is not on the system, so I can't install any software. How can I add pkgadd to my install?



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Name: oliver
Date: October 25, 2001 at 06:21:25 Pacific
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this may be a dumb question but are you sure it's not there?
Run:
# grep pkgadd /var/sadm/install/contents

if nothing is returned then pkgadd isn't installed.

I think your only way around would be to go to a similar box, copy the pkgadd stuff and then install the pkgadd package


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Response Number 2
Name: Mark M
Date: December 3, 2001 at 07:59:16 Pacific
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Yeah it's most likely a bad path setting.. do
echo $PATH

if /usr/sbin isn't in your path then pkgadd won't be found and won't work.

if this is the case then just change your PATH line in your .profile or .cshrc, adding /usr/sbin

Mark


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