Re: [Pkgutil-users] Problems Using Pkgutil

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

Good afternoon Peter and group,
 
After I sent out this first message, I discovered that I cannot ping any website.  So I am thinking in my efforts to do a good housecleaning, I must have removed whatever files or drivers that enables my Sun Blade 150 (running Solaris 10) to access the outside world.  Any ideas or suggestions what I should do to restore those missing items?
 
Thank you,
 
 
Fred
 

> From: bon...@op...
> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 20:26:51 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Pkgutil-users] Problems Using Pkgutil
> To: fre...@ho...
> CC: pkg...@li...
> 
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Fred Strickland
> <fre...@ho...> wrote:
> > Good morning everyone,
> >
> > I just joined this list, because the resources for helping new people are
> > broken:
> 
> Welcome to the list and thanks for telling us about the broken links.
> Note though that pkgutil has its own web site (pkgutil.net), I hope
> instructions there are good enough to get started. There's also a
> users list for OpenCSW that you may be interested in
> (https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users).
> 
> >   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 have fixed both of these now.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Looking below I think you probably don't have a catalog at all.
> 
> > 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.
> > #
> 
> That mirror works for me, I think you're having an issue with DNS
> and/or proxy. Can you resolve ftp.math.purdue.edu?
> 
> # dig ftp.math.purdue.edu
> 
> Pkgutil uses wget for fetching files so if you can fetch the catalog
> manually with, in this case, "wget
> http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/opencsw.org/current/sparc/5.10/catalog",
> pkgutil should be able to do it as well.
> 
> 
> /peter