I am a beginner "system admin" on two solaris machines and I am facing an installation problem that I have little clue. One machine is Sparc Solaris 8 (06/00) on a SparcStation 10 and the other is Intel Solaris 2.6 on an intel machine. Both machines have Oracle 8 installed and running.
My first try is to install a program, Blast, in a binary distribution package. (I used two different versions for two solaris os mentioned here.) The packages were both decompressed and untared without error messages. But when trying to run it under ksh, the error message says, "ksh: syntax error. Line 1 ')' unexpected." When running under csh, the error message is "binary unexecutable." The error message were similar one both machines. But The package and the installation procedure should be good since I have also tested it under another Sparc Solaris 2.6.
My the other problem is to install a copy of Perl on the same Intel Soloaris machine. (The other machine has Perl installed during the OS installation and it works fine.) I tried three ways of installation and none of them working. First I tried to use "packadd" command under root account with the 5.6.1 distribution package, errors came out when it was trying to run reloc_perl portion. (I also tried to run reloc_perl manually and it won't work, too.) Then I tried to install perl without root account, using the pre-compiled package that requires no root account. No error message reported during decompression and untaring. But it just won't run even with "perl -v" command. Finally, I got a copy of version 5.004 source code and tried to compiled it under root account. When running the first command for the installation, "sh configure", the error message says, "C compiler seems no working." And it refused to go any further.
I suspect that there is a problem on the shell or the c compiler, or both, for the both machines. But I could not be more specific than that. Could someone help me to give me a direction or a more specific hint for me to handle this? Thanks!
My first try is to install a program, Blast, in a binary distribution package. (I used two different versions for two solaris os mentioned here.) The packages were both decompressed and untared without error messages. But when trying to run it under ksh, the error message says, "ksh: syntax error. Line 1 ')' unexpected." When running under csh, the error message is "binary unexecutable." The error message were similar one both machines. But The package and the installation procedure should be good since I have also tested it under another Sparc Solaris 2.6.
My the other problem is to install a copy of Perl on the same Intel Soloaris machine. (The other machine has Perl installed during the OS installation and it works fine.) I tried three ways of installation and none of them working. First I tried to use "packadd" command under root account with the 5.6.1 distribution package, errors came out when it was trying to run reloc_perl portion. (I also tried to run reloc_perl manually and it won't work, too.) Then I tried to install perl without root account, using the pre-compiled package that requires no root account. No error message reported during decompression and untaring. But it just won't run even with "perl -v" command. Finally, I got a copy of version 5.004 source code and tried to compiled it under root account. When running the first command for the installation, "sh configure", the error message says, "C compiler seems no working." And it refused to go any further.
I suspect that there is a problem on the shell or the c compiler, or both, for the both machines. But I could not be more specific than that. Could someone help me to give me a direction or a more specific hint for me to handle this? Thanks!