Installation on Solaris 8

[linas@linas.org]

It's been rumoured that Jon Saperia said:
> 
> > I don't know much about Solaris, but I thought that file
> > was a Solaris package. Do you get an error if you try to
> > use it that way?
> 
> Thanks. I have tried a variety of ways:
> 
> 
> pkgadd: ERROR: attempt to process datastream failed
>     - bad format in datastream table-of-contents
> pkgadd: ERROR: could not process datastream from
> </export/home/jon/GNUcash.1.4.9.Solaris.8.sparc>

any chance its still gzipped?  If you downloaded w/ netscape, 
it sometimes plays this trick on you, telling it ungzipped, but it
didn't.

Try renaming GNUcash.1.4.9.Solaris.8.sparc to g.gz, and then ungzip,
and then pkgadd.

---
the opposite may also be true: I think the pjg format is natively
compressed, and maybe netscape uncompressed it without telling you.
You might want to downl;oad using ftp, and verify the package size.

--linas

> 
> 
> pkgadd -d ./GNUcash.1.4.9.Solaris.8.sparc.pkg
> pkgadd: ERROR: attempt to process datastream failed
>     - bad format in datastream table-of-contents
> pkgadd: ERROR: could not process datastream from
> </export/home/jon/GNUcash.1.4.9.Solaris.8.sparc.pkg>
> 
> 
> I have added other packages to the system without much trouble. I do not
> do it frequently so maybe I have missed something.
> 
> /jon
> 
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