Qedit Production Release
Installation Instructions

You may want to print this page, for reference.

FTP upload of binary file to HP-UX

Once you have downloaded the binary file to your PC, you need to upload it to the HP 9000. Using your favorite FTP utility, connect as root, and use a binary transfer to PUT the file to the HP-UX server.

The .Z problem

Some ftp clients do not preserve the case in the filename and end up upshifting or downshifting the filename depending on the settings of your ftp client. Some customers have ftp'ed the qxprod.Z file only to end up with the filename as qxprod.z.

This impacts our installation, as compress does not find the file to decompress; or worse, if a file of the same name exists that does have the capital Z at the end, then that (typically older) file is used and you end up installing an older version.

To insure that the following steps work properly please double check that the file you just ftp'ed is placed on the server with the proper name and has a .Z (dot Capital Z) and not the small ".z". You can always rename the file with the .z over top of the file with the .Z with the following:

mv qxprod.z qxprod.Z

Installing the Software

Once you have the file on your HP 9000, you need to install it:

1. Restore the files.
2. Apply the license codes.

Restore the files

Logon as root.

su -

Decompress the download:

compress -d qxprod

Create the directory where the Qedit files will reside:

mkdir /opt/robelle

Unpack the Robelle files:

cd /opt/robelle
tar xvf /home/root/qxprod

Wait to be contacted by Robelle with the authorization codes.

Apply the license codes

Once you get the codes you can apply them:

cd /opt/robelle/bin
./extend
Product Verification code: n
Verification code: n
Verification code: n

You can now run Qedit:

/opt/robelle/bin/qedit

Setting up Environment Variables

• The ROBELLE variable tells the Robelle products where it's supporting files are located.
• The PATH variable, when set, allows the user to run Qedit by just typing "qedit" instead of the fully qualified program name.
• The MANPATH variable, when set, allows users to access the manpage (Help page) for Qedit.

ROBELLE, PATH and MANPATH

The easiest way to add variables accessible to all users is to set the variables in the global exec file for the shell you use.

For the Bourne, Korn and Posix Shells we recommend the following additions to the /etc/profile file.

export ROBELLE=/opt/robelle
export PATH=$PATH:$ROBELLE/bin
export MANPATH=$MANPATH:$ROBELLE/man

For the C Shell we recommend that you add the following commands after any existing PATH or MANPATH statements in the /etc/csh.login file:

setenv ROBELLE /opt/robelle
set path=($path $ROBELLE/bin)
setenv MANPATH "$MANPATH":$ROBELLE/man

Configuring different Shells

When you log on to HP-UX, a program is run called the shell. The shell program interprets commands, executes them, and controls command execution. Making configuration changes requires that you know which shell you are using and what files are automatically executed.

Bourne, Korn and Posix Shells

The Bourne, Korn and Posix shells execute the file /etc/profile when you log on to HP-UX. They then look for a file in your home directory called .profile. If it exists, it is executed. If you use SAM to add new users, the file /etc/d.profile is automatically copied to the home group of the new user. If you want to make global changes to the commands that are executed at login in time you typically have to make the changes to the /etc/profile file, and check that the /etc/d.profile (the file that becomes the users .profile file), does not counteract any of the changes that you have made to the global file, such as Path, Manpath or Robelle. You also have may have to warn existing Bourne and Korn shell users to change their .profile file in their home directories.

C Shell

Documentation

See the change notice for full documentation on the new release, including the setting of environment variables.