That was vey fast. Thanks to William Yodlowsky and Steve Mickele. The answer is: # cd /var/spool/pkg # pkgadd -d sudo-1.5.9p3-sol7-sparc-local and I got The following packages are available: 1 SMCsudo sudo (sparc) 1.5.9p3 Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: Thanks, Marco William Yodlowsky wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 02:29:09PM -0700, marco-greene wrote: > > > > I downloaded sudo-1.5.9p3-sol7-sparc-local.gz from http://www.sunfreeware.com. > > I did: > > > > [/var/spool/pkg]# gunzip sudo-1.5.9p3-sol7-sparc-local.gz > > > > and I got > > > > sudo-1.5.9p3-sol7-sparc-local > > Good > > > However, if I try > > > > [/var/spool/pkg]# pkgadd -d . > > pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </var/spool/pkg> > > > > What am I missing? > > Try "pkgadd -d sudo-1.5.9p3-sol7-sparc-local" instead. > > For whatever reason, the manpage is very vague. > > HTH Steve Mickeler wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, marco-greene wrote: > > > Hello Admins, > > > > I downloaded sudo-1.5.9p3-sol7-sparc-local.gz from http://www.sunfreeware.com. > > I did: > > > > [/var/spool/pkg]# gunzip sudo-1.5.9p3-sol7-sparc-local.gz > > > > and I got > > > > sudo-1.5.9p3-sol7-sparc-local > > > > However, if I try > > > > [/var/spool/pkg]# pkgadd -d . > > pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </var/spool/pkg> > > > > What am I missing? > > The downloaded file is not in pkgadd format? > > pkgadd -d sudo-1.5.9p3-sol7-sparc-local > > Todays root password is brought to you by /dev/random > > .-------------------------------------. > | Steve Mickeler * Network Operations | > +-------------------------------------+ > | Neptune Internet Services | > `-------------------------------------'Received on Wed Apr 18 22:53:03 2001
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