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  • 1.  python3.9 install question

    Posted Wed April 17, 2024 02:46 AM

    is there a package that has all the prerequisites to install python3.9-3.9.19-1.aix7.1.ppc.rpm ?

    I'm installing this on:

    VIOS: 3.1.4.31 

    AIX level: 7.2



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    Cornelius Thomas
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  • 2.  RE: python3.9 install question

    Posted Wed April 17, 2024 06:40 AM

    You should try to install dnf package manager and use it to install other rpms.
    Follow this blog --> https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/blogs/sangamesh-mallayya1/2021/05/28/dnf-is-now-available-on-aix-toolbox?CommunityKey=10c1d831-47ee-4d92-a138-b03f7896f7c9



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    Ayappan P
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  • 3.  RE: python3.9 install question

    Posted Fri April 19, 2024 09:13 AM

    I have collected the prerequisites and a script to install them into a NFS repository in lieu of going the dnf route. It works for AIX 7.1-7.3. I'm fundamentally opposed to installing dnf with wide open access to any OS utility that strikes the fancy of some AIX Admin somewhere in the corporation, so I suffered the pain of going this route instead. And there's the whole "dnf seems really difficult to keep working" thing. YMMV



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    Mackey Morgan
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  • 4.  RE: python3.9 install question

    Posted Tue April 23, 2024 07:58 AM

    Hi Mackey,

    That sounds great, did you publish this somewhere?



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    Cornelius Thomas
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  • 5.  RE: python3.9 install question

    Posted Tue April 23, 2024 09:33 AM

    No, I developed this for my client. I have posted in the Open Source community several times about my misgivings with dnf with very little uptake from the community, so I think that leaves me in the paranoid minority on this point.



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    Mackey Morgan
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