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Installing software from CD - photo570 - 04-27-2021

Hi, yet another dumb question.

I have a legit install CD for Adobe Framemaker 5.5 for Unix.

I can browse the CD with "Removable Media Manager" in Irix 6.5 on my O2, but Software Manager says there are no installs on the CD. But I can see the install.tar on the CD.

What am i missing?

Thanks in advance.

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RE: Installing software from CD - Raion - 04-27-2021

Well, firstly copy the install.tar file to somewhere on the computer then do tar xvf on the file to open it. If it doesn't have install instructions it should have distfiles inside.

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RE: Installing software from CD - photo570 - 04-27-2021

Hi Raion,

Thanks for that. I managed to figure out how to copy the CD and put everything in a directory called Framemaker, in my user folder, just to keep it together.

Now for the embarrassing bit. I can't believe I am going to say this, but can you explain what to do next, nice and simple, like you are talking to a Mac user. (Yes I know, Unix for dumb-dumbs)

I double clicked on the install.tar, as a Mac user would, and it seems to open a window showing the contents of the .tar. About a dozen .install/ files with various names after the /.

How do I unpack the .tar?

Sorry to be a complete noob.

Thanks,
Jason.

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RE: Installing software from CD - Raion - 04-27-2021

From the terminal, cd to the directory you moved it.

tar xvf install.tar

Then you're looking for a "dist" directory. If it has it, as root do:

inst -f dist

If you're not sure you're root, do "whoami" on the command line.

If it doesn't show a dist directory, look for a readme or instructions, or if you see any of the following when you ls after tar xvf:

.spec
.idb
.sw
.man

As the file extensions then you can just type inst as root.

Using the installer software is relatively self-explanatory but if you have any problems there are some documents I can share on it.

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