installing lsof

[dandan123]

I've downloaded lsof off sunfreeware.com.

I did a gunzip on the downloaded file and then did a pkgadd when I got a message saying no "no packages found"

when i did a file lsof.........

It says it's a text file.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong ?

 

[bfitzmai]

Can you show us the pkgadd command you used... By default, pkgadd looks for the package in /var/spool/pkg. You need to use the -d option with a discrete path if your package is in a different directory.

 

[dandan123]

I did a pkgadd -d .

I was in the directory where I'd unzipped lsof

 

[bfitzmai]

Try pkgadd -d <filename>

 

[dandan123]

yeah that worked, thanks.

What was the problem ?

 

[bfitzmai]

The "." in your pkgadd command

 

[dandan123]

But the error message said "no packages found in <directory> and it gave the correct directory name so I assumed it was looking in the directory and not finding anything.

 

[Annihilannic]

Packages come in two formats... extracted in a directory, or combined into one file. The SunFreeware packages are generally in the second format. The pkgtrans command can translate the packages between the two formats. If you specify -d <directory_name>, pkgadd will presume you are using a the "directory" format.

Annihilannic.

 

[dandan123]

Thanks Annihilannic for the explanation.