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  • 1.  suma suma suma

    Posted Tue June 03, 2008 03:40 PM

    Originally posted by: d1land


    Hello all,

    Please bear with me as I am pretty unfamiliar with the suma command. I have a AIX server that was at 5300-02. Using suma I was able to update to 5300-04 quite easily. My frustration comes into play when trying to upgrade further to 5300-05 (and beyond). I get a long list of missing prerequisites. All of which are at the level 5.3.0.0, which I cannot download from suma. My question is 2 fold. 1.) Are the base filesets going to be available at some point to download via suma? 2.) Why would suma complain about these filesets when attempting to go from TL 4 to TL 5 but not from TL 2 to TL 4? I have tried filtering against the localhost and a file created with lslpp -Lc > suma_file. I don't know about everyone else, but it is very frustrating that the suma tool would require so much manual intervention.
    Thanks,
    -DL


  • 2.  Re: suma suma suma

    Posted Tue June 03, 2008 07:51 PM

    Originally posted by: dukessd


    1. Base filesets cannot be downloaded, the must be installed from AIX install media / CDs.
    2. Sounds like SUMA is broken, you probably don't need the extra base filesets, call IBM and ask for help or download the TL from fixcentral and do a smitty update_all.