PKGADD is not working

[Carl Fyffe]

I am trying to install gcc and when I do:
pkgadd -d /export/home/fyffec/tmp/gcc-2.7.2
I get:
pkgadd: ERROR: attempt to process datastream failed
- bad format in datastream table-of-contents
pkgadd: ERROR: could not process datastream from
</export/home/fyffec/tmp/gcc-2.7.2>

I have RTFM and can not figure out what I have done wrong. I downloaded
the gcc from sunsite. I am installing on Solaris 2.5 with CDE installed
on a SPARC 20.

Please help.

--
Carl B. Fyffe
fyffe...@bah.com

[Youcai Chen]

is the gcc-2.7.2 here a dir?

You should use the pkg file name instead of the directory when dealing with
a pkg datastream.

i.e. if the file you downloaded is named gcc-pkg-2.7.2 and you put it under
/some/where/gcc-2.7.2

then you do

pkgadd -d /some/where/gcc-2.7.2/gcc-pkg-2.7.2

Y.C.