Originally posted by: Thomas909

Hello,

I hope that I found the correct forum for this post. I not, I hope you do not mind and answer anyway.

I am having problems installing Python 2.3 from the AIX Toolbox for Linux:

oslevel -r

5300-08

>rpm -i python-2.3.4-4.aix5.3.ppc.rpm
error: python-2.3.4-4.aix5.3.ppc.rpm cannot be installed.

I am not at all familiar with rpm installations and unfortunately, that error message does not give you any hints on what went wrong.

Many thanks in advance for your help.

Thomas
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Originally posted by: hdkutz

Hello,
try
rpm -ivvh YOUR-RPM-PACKAGE.rpm
to get more Info.
Maybe a dependency is missing?

HTH,
ku
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Originally posted by: Thomas909

Thank you,

rpm -ivvh YOUR-RPM-PACKAGE.rpm helped. The rpm appeared to be corrupted.
Doe anyone know, when there will be rpm packages available for more recent versions of Python? I tried to compile it myself, but it is a pain, specially if you are not experienced with compilers.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I got the smae problem.
Actually, I have installed openssl and openssh on my aix.
bash-3.2# rpm -ivh python-2.3.4-4.aix5.3.ppc.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
libcrypto.a(libcrypto.so.0.9.8) is needed by python-2.3.4-4
libssl.a(libssl.so.0.9.8) is needed by python-2.3.4-4
bash-3.2#
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Originally posted by: sureaprn

You can download python-2.1.1.0 from http://www.bullfreeware.com/listaix51.html,
that is .exe file now you can run the command like ./Python-2.1.1.0.exe this will generate a bff file ,now you can install as normal way i.e smit install.
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