Originally posted by: sanket

Installation of yum on AIX has become easier. 

For ease of use we have created a script yum.sh to download and install latest rpm.rte and all the packages needed for yum.

Just download and run yum.sh script on your AIX machine and it will setup yum on your AIX system.

The only requirements are

1. You should have external connectivity from your AIX system because it gets packages from AIX toolbox.

2. It uses expect script hence you should have expect.base package already installed on your AIX system.

Thanks 

Sanket

Originally posted by: sdpeck

It may be easier, but it still isn't easy.

yum.sh requires expect.  expect requires tk.   tk requires tcl, fontconfig and 8 other packages.  tcl requires libgcc_s.a.   This dependency hell never seems to end...

Originally posted by: AyappanP

As mentioned above, it requires expect.base lpp package and not expect rpm. So you won't get into any dependency issues.

Originally posted by: Peter.Soto

Soo I need yum.sh , the expect.base, and the sudo pakages to do the install of sudo?

Originally posted by: AyappanP

Yes. To successfully run the yum.sh script you need expect.base fileset. 

Once yum got successfully installed through the yum.sh script, you can install any package easily. Just "yum update" followed by "yum install <pkg>" . 

Originally posted by: Peter.Soto

Well there's a bunch of stuff with expect but I do not see anything like base.

Never mind, I  found it.

Originally posted by: Peter.Soto

Well the assumption is that the server the yum.sh is running on has access to the outside world. It does not. there are still dependencies that I cannot find

error: Failed dependencies:
        liblber.a(liblber-2.4.so.2) is needed by sudo-1.8.21p2-1.ppc
        libldap.a(libldap-2.4.so.2) is needed by sudo-1.8.21p2-1.ppc
        openldap >= 2.4.40-2 is needed by sudo-1.8.21p2-1.ppc

so where could these be found?

Originally posted by: AyappanP

This thread is about installing yum in AIX. 

You can check this article about how to configure yum if the AIX machine doesn't have outside world access.

https://developer.ibm.com/articles/configure-yum-on-aix/

Originally posted by: ibm resilient

can you provide or guide me to the links for expect.base? i am unable to find it . 

Originally posted by: AyappanP

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1fileset1478501190

Originally posted by: peterchi

When running yum.sh, first I got the followings:

error: Failed dependencies:
        libcrypto.a(libcrypto.so) is needed by curl-7.44.0-1.ppc
        libssl.a(libssl.so) is needed by curl-7.44.0-1.ppc
        libcrypto.a(libcrypto.so) is needed by python-2.7.10-1.ppc
        libssl.a(libssl.so) is needed by python-2.7.10-1.ppc
        libcrypto.a(libcrypto.so) is needed by python-pycurl-7.19.3-1.ppc

After I installed the openssl-1.0.2.1601.tar.Z and re-run updtvpkg, yum.sh give me the followings:

Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]

        file /opt/freeware/lib/libdb.a from install of db-4.8.24-3.ppc conflicts with file from package db4-4.7.25-2.ppc

        file /opt/freeware/lib/libdb.so from install of db-4.8.24-3.ppc conflicts with file from package db4-4.7.25-2.ppc

        file /opt/freeware/lib/libdb-4.a from install of db-4.8.24-3.ppc conflicts with file from package db4-4.7.25-2.ppc

        file /opt/freeware/lib/libdb-4.so from install of db-4.8.24-3.ppc conflicts with file from package db4-4.7.25-2.ppc

Yum installation failed. 

       Anyone has any idea about how to resolve that? Thanks a lot.

Originally posted by: sangameshm

Looks like you have db4 installed from other source.

Please try uninstalling db4 and then retry the running yum.sh script.

Also let us know what are all other rpm packages are installed.

Thanks,

Sangamesh

Originally posted by: peterchi

Thanks the issue resolved by install new gcc as well as the db6 package as the following commands:

rpm -iF libgcc-6.3.0-2.aix7.1.ppc.rpm
rpm -ivh db-6.2.32-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm