Originally posted by: pandurangareddym

Hi,

we need samba.rte package for the customer UKPN. previoulsy they have installed pwaresamba.rte package when they were in CSC organization, now they moved to IBM. The customer need samba package.

I tried to install with AIX RPM it is asking lot of dependency packages, it is asking around 100 dependency packages.

Kindly let us know from where we can download samba.rte package if the customer doesn't have extension package because he migrated from other oraganization.

Originally posted by: AyappanP

Samba is available through AIX Toolbox as a RPM format only . There is no rte packaging available. 

Yum is the best way to install samba as it has lot of dependencies. 

You can look into this document about how to configure yum in AIX  -->  https://developer.ibm.com/technologies/systems/articles/configure-yum-on-aix/

Originally posted by: pandurangareddym

Hello Ayyappan,

Thanks for the update, I tried with yum.sh installation. it is not installing anything after running yum.sh.

it is not coming out after executing yum.sh. The rpm.rte package was already installed on AIX OS 7.2

after executing yum.sh, how much time it takes and also it requires any internet connection.

Originally posted by: AyappanP

It requires internet connection. Read the documentation carefully.

It has steps to configure yum even if you don't have internet connection. 

Originally posted by: pandurangareddym

In the document it has mentioned that even creating local yum repository we need internet at least on one server.

Creating a local YUM repository

To setup a local YUM repository, one of the systems must have access to the Internet and this system serves as the repository to other AIX systems.

For better clarity, we call the system with Internet access where the local YUM repository is being created as the Repo server and other AIX systems that use its repository as the AIX Repo clients.

The Repo server must be an RPM-based system such as AIX or Linux®. The HTTP server must be running on the Repo server and the directory where repositories are created should be accessible by the AIX Repo clients using HTTP so that they can connect to it using YUM and retrieve the RPM packages

Originally posted by: pandurangareddym

as per the document yum we can install locally but the repo is referring to ibm websites that requires internet. Here we don't have access for internet from any of the servers.

[AIX_Toolbox]
 name=AIX generic repository
 baseurl= 
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/

 [AIX_Toolbox_noarch]
 name=AIX noarch repository
 baseurl= 
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/noarch/

 [AIX_Toolbox_61]
 name=AIX 6.1 specific repository
 baseurl= 
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc-6.1/

 [AIX_Toolbox_71]
 name=AIX 7.1 specific repository
 baseurl= 
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc-7.1/

 [AIX_Toolbox_72]
 name=AIX 7.2 specific repository
 baseurl= 
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc-7.2/

Originally posted by: sanket

The process of setting up a local yum repo for AIX is similar to setting up for Linux. 

If you have RPM based Linux distro in your environment then your organization would have setup yum repo for that and same way need to setup for AIX.

Any way to setup a local yum repo you need at least one system either AIX or an RPM based Linux to connect to yum server to get packages.

Then you can setup that machine as the local YUM server and point the baseurl to that system. 

This is generic process followed to setup local YUM. If you have proxy server in your environment then you can set that as well.

Yum support proxy server. 

The above url will work when you have internet connection if not then you need to point them to machine where you are setting local yum repo.