[Pkgutil-users] Problems Using Pkgutil

[Fred S. <fre...@ho...>]

Good morning everyone,
 
I just joined this list, because the resources for helping new people are broken:
 
  The link for a quckstart cocumentation page from www.opencsw.org/support is broken.
  The link for the user guide from the same URL is broken.
 
I looked at the CSW mail list archieve for July 2011 and I see some individuals had problems with the catalog.  Their issue is not same as mine.  I receive the following message whenever I execute most options from pkgutil:
 
  # pkgutil -i firefox
Solving needed dependencies ...
Package firefox not in catalog. Exiting.

 
When I try to obtain the latest catalog, I receive this error message:
 
# /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -U
=> Fetching new catalog and descriptions (http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/opencsw.org/current/sparc/5.10) if available ...
--09:41:27--  http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/opencsw.org/current/sparc/5.10/catalog
           => `/var/opt/csw/pkgutil/catalog.ftp.math.purdue.edu_mirrors_opencsw.org_current_sparc_5.10'
Resolving ftp.math.purdue.edu... failed: node name or service name not known.
Fetching of catalog failed.
#
 
I noticed that someone had asked for the output from the -V option.  So here is my output:
 
# pkgutil -V
- System -
Pkgutil         2.1
Arch            sparc
Solaris         5.10
Pkg patch       119317 (119317-01 installed)
GPG binary      not found (suggestion: install CSWgnupg)
Gzip binary     /bin/gzip
Mailx binary    /bin/mailx
MD5 binary      not found (suggestion: install CSWtextutils)
MD5 module      2.33 (primary choice for MD5)
Perl            5.008004
Perl binary     /usr/bin/perl
Wget binary     /usr/sfw/bin/wget
PATH            /usr/sbin:/usr/bin
- Configuration -
catalog_not_cached      true (default: true)
catalog_update          14 (default: 14)
exclude_pattern         not set (default: none)
gpg_homedir             not set (default: none)
maxpkglist              100000 (default: 10000)
mirror                  http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/opencsw.org/current
                        (default: http://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/opencsw/current)
noncsw                  false (default: false)
pkgaddopts              not set (default: none)
pkgliststyle             (default: 0)
root_path               not set (default: /)
show_current            true (default: true)
stop_on_hook_soft_error not set (default: false)
use_gpg                 false (default: false)
use_md5                 false (default: false)
wgetopts                not set (default: none)

 
I do recall that I had some issues as I was installing Firefox and other problems.  Something to do with the CSWcommon.  I figured that I needed to start fresh, so I remove the old Mozilla web browser, the two copies of Firefox web browser, the two copies of Adobe reader, and CSWcommon.  After doing all of this housecleaning, I attempted to install CSWcommon, but it won't work.  It seems many of the commands need to do something with the catalog and so fail.  I noticed that the ping command does not seem to be able to hit anything.

So what am I doing wrong?  Did I kill my Internet access by mistake?  How do I fix my problems?
 
 
Thank you,
 
 
Fred Strickland
A Solars 10 User
SunBlade 150 from 2002