Originally posted by: jifr03

<Environment>

AIX7.1 TL05 SP04

rpm.rte 4.13.0.3

 

<Event>

bzip2 already existed because rpm.rte was installed.

 

# lslpp -f rpm.rte | grep bzip2

                        /usr/opt/freeware/bin/bzip2

                        /usr/opt/freeware/bin/bzip2recover

#

 

 

However, when trying to install pbzip2 from Toolbox, it was dependent on bzip2.

 

# rpm --test -ivh ppc/pbzip2/pbzip2-1.1.13-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm

error: Failed dependencies:

        bzip2 >= 1.0.6-3 is needed by pbzip2-1.1.13-1.ppc

#

 

 

To solve the dependency, bzip2 was also installed from Toolbox.

The installation of pbzip2 and bzip2 was successful.

 

 

I wanted to undo and tried to uninstall pbzip2 and bzip2, but

bzip2 was required for another package (AIX-rpm-7.1.4.31-2.ppc) and could not be uninstalled.

 

# rpm --test -evh bzip2-1.0.6-3.ppc pbzip2-1.1.13-1.ppc

error: Failed dependencies:

        bzip2 is needed by (installed) AIX-rpm-7.1.4.31-2.ppc

#

 

<Q1>

Shouldn't the Toolbox bzip2 be installed, ignoring dependencies when installing pbzip2?

 

<Q2>

How do I get it back?

Do I have to restore from a system backup?

 

 

Thank you.

Originally posted by: sangameshm

This was the limitation until rpm.rte-4.13.0.3 and this limitation has been removed from rpm.rte-4.13.0.4.

More detailed information can be found in this README file.

https://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/INSTALLP/ppc/README_rpm.rte.4.13.0.10

Once if you update rpm.rte to latest version then you can remove bzip2.

https://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/INSTALLP/ppc/

 

But why you want to uninstall bzip2 as this is required to run rpm command ?

 

Thanks,

Sangamesh