HPUX Patches

This page is funded by a Hewlett Packard special project in cooperation with CCSO.

HPUX patches available from the HP Electronic Support Center. Most users at UIUC have Series 700 HP machines, so there is now a Series 700/800 10.X HPUX patch mirror. Some of the patches are also available as a remote software depot as "hp.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/patches" if you're using swinstall. The patches in the depot are all series 700 specific patches, with the s700/800 joined patches.

Where to Find Patches

Searchable List of Available Patches - includes recommended patches
UIUC Series 700/800 10.X patch mirror via HTTP
UIUC Series 700/800 10.X patch mirror via FTP
HP Electronic Support Center

Tips and Suggestions

Additional Security Information
When installing many patches (like the March bundles), you may want to create the file /var/adm/sw/patch/PATCH_NOSAVE to NOT save the files that are being replaced by the patches. You will save a LOT of disk space in /var, but you will not be able to uninstall those patches. When you run swinstall, it may fail the first time, claiming you don't have enough diskspace. Ignore this error, and re-try the installation.
To install a patch on many machines at once it is very tedious to run swinstall interactively on each machine. Installing patches can be done from the command line also:
- If you have network connectivity, you can run swinstall non-interactively against the patch depot on hp.cso.uiuc.edu:
  swinstall -s hp.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/patches PHXX_NNNNN
- If you don't have network connectivity, you can copy the patch to your machine locally:
  - First, get the patch you want from this mirror and put it in /tmp. The file you will have is a self-extracting shell archive. I don't like running a script as root if I didn't write it myself, so I will run the following to extract the patch:
    cd /tmp; su nobody -c /bin/sh /tmp/PHXX_NNNNN
    This will make PHXX_NNNNN.txt and PHXX_NNNNN.depot. The PHXX_NNNNN.depot file is the SW depot containing the patch.
  - Next, copy the PHXX_NNNNN.depot file to /tmp on all the machines you want to install the patch on.
  - Finally, run swinstall on each machine:
    swinstall -s /tmp/PHXX_NNNNN.depot PHXX_NNNNN
    Since an SW depot can have multiple products in it, you need to tell swinstall which product you want. In this case, it's patch PHXX_NNNNN. With that swinstall command line, swinstall will run automatically and install the patch.

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Last modified: Tuesday, October 28 1997