. . . . . . . Installation Guide

SCO Skunkware 7 contains both file-system format packages suitable for installation on SCO UnixWare systems with the pkgadd facility and media images suitable for installation on SCO OpenServer systems with the custom utility, In addition, there are compressed archives of pre-compiled utilities which can be extraced manually. Finally, there are hundreds of source archives (almost everything on the CD is accompanied by the source used to build it).

SCO Skunkware 7 is both an installation media (recognizable by pkgadd and PackageMgr) and a mountable filesystem. In the text that follows, the string mount-point will refer to the full pathname of the CD-ROM mount point (for example, you may choose to mount the CD-ROM on /usr/skunkware in which case mount-point would refer to /usr/skunkware).

Installation on SCO UnixWare

The following is repeated in the Skunkware 7 release notes in the section "Installing the Skunkware 7 Software".

To install most of the software available on the CD, you can invoke one of the following as a system owner:

  1. After mounting the CD-ROM, run the command: 
        # /<mount-point>/INSTALL
    This is the recommended Skunkware 7 installation procedure. The INSTALL program will detect which platform you are installing on, (possibly) ask some questions and install all the available packaged files for that platform. On UnixWare 7 this installation method also installs several additional UnixWare 2.x packages in /<mount-point>/uw2/Packages, consuming around 30 MB of additional disk space. UnixWare 7 installs will also be given the opportunity to update /etc/magic with the augmented /etc/magic on Skunkware 7 when using this installation method.
  2. After mounting the CD-ROM, run the command: 
        # pkgadd -d /<mount-point> [glib tcl802 tk802 all | package_list]
  3. Prior to mounting the CD-ROM, you can install the software with: 
        # pkgadd -d /dev/cdrom/c1b0t010 [glib tcl802 tk802 all | package_list]
    where /dev/cdrom/c1b0t0l0 is the device node name of your CD-ROM drive (this may vary from system to system).

The installation of all the Skunkware 7 components requires about 150 MB of free space on the root partition for OpenServer, about 500 MB of free space on the partition used by /usr/local for UnixWare 7 and around 80 MB on UnixWare 2.x.

Almost all of the files in the Skunwkare 7 distribution will be installed in /usr/local. Unfortunately, in UnixWare 7 the /usr/local directory is on the root filesystem and contains the Netscape Navigator plugins. Therefore, you may wish to move the existing /usr/local hierarchy to a filesystem with sufficient disk space and create a symbolic link from /usr/local. For instance, assuming you had created a /u filesystem with plenty of space: 

    # mv /usr/local /u/local
    # ln -s /u/local /usr/local

Further platform-specific installation instructions are available in the Skunkware 7 Release Notes:

After completing the installation of the Skunkware 7 components you desire, you may wish to add /usr/local/bin to your PATH and /usr/local/man to your MANPATH. You may also wish to add /usr/local/java to your CLASSPATH. It should not be necessary to add /usr/local/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH as the Skunkware 7 shared libraries have been built with the appropriate flags.

To query the system about installed Skunkware 7 packages, issue the command: 

    # pkginfo -c skunkware

The Skunkware 7 components intended for installation on UnixWare 7 are in pkgadd-installable file system format. What this means is that you can install these Skunkware 7 components by issuing the command: 

    # pkgadd -d /dev/cdrom/c1b0t0l0
(where c1b0t0l0 indicates the CD-ROM device node for the drive in which the Skunkware CD-ROM has been inserted - the exact name of this node may vary from system to system).

To install all of the Skunkware 7 pkgadd components, issue the command: 

    # pkgadd -d /dev/cdrom/c1b0t0l0 glib tcl802 tk802 all

To install an individual package, execute the command: 

    # pkgadd -d /dev/cdrom/c1b0t0l0 package_name
where "package_name" is the name of the desired component.

For a list of all the pkg installable components see the file packages_a.html.

You may also invoke pkgadd with the mount-point as an argument. For instance, if the Skunkware 7 CD-ROM has been mounted on /mnt, then the Skunkware 7 software can be installed by issuing the command: 

    # pkgadd -d /mnt glib tcl802 tk802 all
or, to select packages to install: 
    # pkgadd -d /mnt

The Skunkware components are installed into /usr/local and in total consume about 380 MB.

An interactive graphical installation can be performed by running /usr/X/bin/PackageMgr (with owner permissions):

Select "CD-ROM" from the "Install from" Combo Box.

Wait for the Packages to be scanned then select the Packages you want installed and press the install button.

SCO OpenServer

The media images for SCO OpenServer are located in /mount-point/osr5/inst on the CD-ROM. The packages will be exported to /usr/local and in total consume about 150 MB.

To install an individual package, execute the command: 

    # custom -p SKUNK97:default:Package -i -z /mount-point/osr5/inst
where "Package" is the name of the desired component. See the file /mount-point/osr5/CONTENTS for the list of available components.

An interactive graphical installation can be performed by running /etc/custom as root and choosing to install from "media images". Enter the pathname of the media images (e.g. /mount-point/osr5/inst) and choose to do a full install.

If, as root, you are running the X.Desktop, then you can configure your system to mount the SCO Skunkware 7 CD-ROM by double-clicking the System Administration folder -> Filesystems -> Filesystem Manager. Alternatively, at a root shell prompt, type "scoadmin f" to bring up the Filesystem Manager. Next select Mount -> Add Mount Configuration -> Local and enter /dev/cd0 for the device and a mount point. Change the "Can Users Mount" to Yes and uncheck the "At System Startup" mount. After completing this operation, you should be able to mount and unmount the SCO Skunkware 7 CD-ROM by typing "mnt mount-point" and "umnt mount-point" as any user.

This cdrom is built as a mountable filesystem, and may be mounted to view, use, or install. To mount the cdrom, use the mount(ADM) command with the mount point of your choice.
OpenServer : 

    # mount -r /dev/cd0 /mount-point
or
UnixWare : 
    # mount -r -f cdfs /dev/cdrom/c1b0t210 /mount-point
Source code is provided in the /src directory. In some cases, source code is provided but no compiled binaries. The source distributions are in gzip-compressed tar or cpio format. In order to extract these, use the command: 
    $ gzcat /mount-point/src/<directory>/<package>.tar.gz | tar xf -
or, in the case of a compressed cpio archive: 
    $ gzcat /mount-point/src/<directory>/<package>.cpio.gz | cpio -icdu
Where <directory> refers to the top-level source directory and <package> is the package name (e.g. gzip-1.2.4).

If you do not have gzcat installed (part of the gzip package), you can install it off of the SCO Skunkware 7 CD via the command: 

        # custom -p SKUNK97:default:GZIP -i -z /mount-point/osr5/inst
You may also find the SCO Technical Library Supplements to be of interest. These are drawn from the SCO Support Online System, and are accessible via anonymous ftp on the Internet from ftp.sco.com or via web facilities at http://www.sco.com

Comments

Please direct any comments on the installation of Skunkware components to skunkware@sco.com.