If you can, I'd recommend on alternating `rpm -qa` to list all packages and `rpm -e` on one package at a time until you're at a very minimal set necessary to run AIX-rpm. Then you can install `dnf` from the AIX toolbox and use that instead of RPM. It can be a little annoying having to remove all the packages, but it's worth it to start clean where you can manage it. Even when you don't have internet access, DNF being able to decide what is necessary to install and not is much nicer than manually managing things through RPM.
You'll probably have to make sure SSL is up to date and also run /usr/sbin/updtvpkg to make sure rpm is aware of it.
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Taylor Richberger
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