Skunkware 98 Installation Guide

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SCO Skunkware 98 contains files suitable for installation on SCO OpenServer systems with the Software Manager facility (/etc/custom). 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).

NOTE: A full installation of SCO Skunkware 98 will consume over 500 Megabytes of disk space and take several hours.

SCO Skunkware 98 is both an installation media (recognizable by the SCO OpenServer Software Manager) 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 OpenServer

The software packages for SCO OpenServer are located in /mount-point/opt on the CD-ROM. The packages will be exported to /usr/local and in total consume about 500 MB of disk space in /opt/K/SKUNK98. If your root filesystem has insufficient space, prior to installation you can create a symbolic link from /opt/K/SKUNK98 to another filesystem with sufficient disk space. For instance, assuming you have created an additional filesystem on /u with lots of disk space :

        # mkdir /u/skunk98
        # cd /opt/K
        # ln -s /u/skunk98 SKUNK98

To install the entire Skunkware 98 product, execute the command:

    # custom -i -m /dev/rcd0

To install an individual package, execute the command:

    # custom -p SKUNK98:default:Package -i -m /dev/rcd0

where "Package" is the name of the desired component. See the file /mount-point/osr5/COMPONENTS for the list of available components.

Alternatively, after mounting the Skunkware 98 CD (mount -r /dev/cd0 /mnt), as root run the command:

    # /mount-point/INSTALL

The Skunkware INSTALL script will allow you to select from a menu of Skunkware "software sets" including All Components, Development Tools, Shells, Audio/Video Components, etc. The INSTALL script acts as a front-end for a non-interactive installation using the Software Manager (/etc/custom).

An interactive graphical installation can be performed by running the Software Manager (/etc/custom) as root and choosing to install from the CD-ROM device. In this mode, desired packages can be selected by clicking on an individual package and/or -clicking on additional packages.

If, as root, you are running the X.Desktop, then you can configure your system to mount the SCO Skunkware 98 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 98 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 98 CD via the command:

        # custom -p SKUNK98:default:GZIP -i -m /dev/rcd0

Further platform-specific installation instructions are available in the Skunkware 98 Release Notes:

After completing the installation of the Skunkware 98 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 98 shared libraries have been built with the appropriate flags.

Technical Library Supplements

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/TLS/ or via web facilities at http://www.sco.com

Comments

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

Last Updated: Friday Mar 19, 1999 at 10:01:10 PST