newbie - package installation question

[telemorgan]

Good Morning,

Can someone help out a newbie, I'm trying to install a unrar package onto a Solaris 8 box. The name of the file that I downloaded is solaris8-sparc-unrar-3.3.tar.gz.

Here is what I have done so far:

## gunzip -c solaris8-sparc-unrar-3.3.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
x unrar, 209396 bytes, 409 tape blocks
## ls -l
total 624
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 99161 Aug 8 09:12 solaris8-sparc-unrar-3.3.tar.gz
-rwxrwxr-x 1 7479 216 209396 Mar 9 2004 unrar

So, now what? I have this unrar compressed file but i do not know how to install it. pkgadd? what snytax?

 

[daFranze]

it might be a package data stream; just do a "head -1 unrar", it should print something like "PaCkAgEdAtaStReAm" or sth.
If it is a package data stream, you can install this with "pkgadd -d ./unrar"
didn't you get any further infos?

Best Regards, Franz
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Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years in the domain of the OS, Backup and Storage

 

[telemorgan]

I did a "head -1 unrar" and got this:

ELF
( on this line, there was a bunch of garbaled characters after the ELF that would not copy )



I wish I could find some info. I have been trying unsuccessfully to find any documentation online for unrar.

any other ideas?, thanks Franz

 

[daFranze]

ok, if it is an ELF, it is the binary, a Windows people would speak of an ".exe". You cannot install this as a package, it's just an executable file in your filesystem. Put this in /usr/local/bin or somewhere you like and put the path into your $PATH

Best Regards, Franz
--
Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years in the domain of the OS, Backup and Storage