Installing Bash on HP-UX is different on different hardware. Currently HP-UX offers support on below hardware
- PA-RISC servers from HP
- Itanium(Intel I64) servers from HP.
I have been facing a difficulty on installing Bash over Itanium server. I found the bash depot in hp web site. Once I finished installation, bash throws an error with below message :
"/usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unable to find library 'libtermcap.so'".
Here is a simple method to deploy Bash on HP-UX Itanium servers.
install bash-4.1.007-ia64-11.31.depot
( swinstall –s <bash-4.1.007-ia64-11.31.depot >
This depot can be downloaded from internet.http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Shells/bash-4.1.007/
Then you need to check for the dependencies, which are installed or not. To check the dependency, go to the bash installed location. Usually the install directory will be /usr/local/bin/bash. Or you can execute below command to know the actual path
# whereis bash
Now you need to execute the bash.
If dependant libraries are not present, then it will popup with a error message similar bas below :
"/usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unable to find library 'libtermcap.so'"
If dependant libraries are not present in your system, here is the method to get it.
1- note down the bash dependant libraries from here:
bash-4.1# ldd bash
libtermcap.so => /usr/local/lib/hpux32/libtermcap.so
libintl.so => /usr/local/lib/hpux32/libintl.so
libiconv.so => /usr/local/lib/hpux32/libiconv.so
libdl.so.1 => /usr/lib/hpux32/libdl.so.1
libc.so.1 => /usr/lib/hpux32/libc.so.1
libc.so.1 => /usr/lib/hpux32/libc.so.1
You can download all these files from here : www.http://cmronweb.com/download/library-UX-itanium.rar
2- Now you need to copy all these files files from your friends machine to /usr/local/lib/hpux32/ folder. If hpux32 folder is not exist, then you can create one and copy the libriries to the folder.
3- Thats it, now you can enjoy the wonderful world of Bash.
