pkgadd(1M)                     DG/UX R4.11MU05                    pkgadd(1M)


NAME
       pkgadd - transfer software package to the system

SYNOPSIS
       pkgadd [-d device] [-r response] [-n] [-a admin] [pkginst1 [pkginst2[
       ...]]]

       pkgadd -s spool [-d device] [pkginst1 [pkginst2[ ...]]]

DESCRIPTION
       pkgadd transfers the contents of a software package from the
       distribution medium or directory to install it onto the system.  Used
       without the -d option, pkgadd looks in the default spool directory
       for the package (var/spool/pkg).  Used with the -s option, it reads
       the package to a spool directory instead of installing it.

       -d        Install or copy a package from device.  device can be a
                 full path name to a directory or the identifiers for tape,
                 floppy disk or removable disk (for example, /var/tmp,
                 /dev/pdsk/1, or diskette1).  It can also be the device
                 alias.  getdev(1M) displays the list of valid device
                 aliases.

       -r        Identify a file or directory, response, which contains
                 output from a previous pkgask session.  This file supplies
                 the interaction responses that would be requested by the
                 package in interactive mode.  response must be a full
                 pathname.

       -n        Install in non-interactive mode.  The default mode is
                 interactive.

       -a        Define an installation administration file, admin, to be
                 used in place of the default administration file.  The
                 token none overrides the use of any admin file, and thus
                 forces interaction with the user.  Unless a full path name
                 is given, pkgadd looks in the /var/sadm/install/admin
                 directory for the file.

       pkginst   Specify the package instance or list of instances to be
                 installed.  The token all may be used to refer to all
                 packages available on the source medium.  The format
                 pkginst.* can be used to indicate all instances of a
                 package.

       -s        Read the package into the directory spool instead of
                 installing it.

       When executed without options, pkgadd users /var/spool/pkg (the
       default spool directory).

NOTES
       When transferring a package to a spool directory, the -r, -n, and -a
       options cannot be used.

       The -r option can be used to indicate a directory name as well as a
       filename.  The directory can contain numerous response files, each
       sharing the name of the package with which it should be associated.
       This would be used, for example, when adding multiple interactive
       packages with one invocation of pkgadd.  Each package would need a
       response file.  If you create response files with the same name as
       the package (i.e. package1 and package2), then name the directory in
       which these files reside after the -r.

       The -n option will cause the installation to halt if any interaction
       is needed to complete it.

SEE ALSO
       getdev(1M), installf(1M), pkgask(1M), pkgchk(1), pkgmk(1),
       pkginfo(1), pkgparam(1), pkgproto(1), pkgtrans(1), pkgrm(1M),
       putdev(1M), removef(1M).


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