Totally understand where you're coming from. I've faced similar challenges with outdated packages on AIX before. It's somewhat frustrating to see vital tools like Graphviz lag behind on AIX, especially when they're readily available and up-to-date on other platforms like RHEL and Solaris. I truly hope the maintainers of AIX_Toolbox consider adding an updated version of Graphviz soon. It'd be a significant boost to the toolbox, and many of us would greatly benefit from it. Fingers crossed they're paying attention to the community's needs. Until then, all we can do is keep voicing our concerns and hope for the best.
Cheers,
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Abdullah Ahmmas
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Original Message:
Sent: Fri March 17, 2023 09:24 AM
From: Lionel Widmer
Subject: Graphviz package in AIX_Toolbox
Hi,
Is it planned to provide Graphviz RPM in AIX_Toolbox ?
Some of our AIX LPARs have Graphviz installed (version from 10 years ago). It was probably installed from this now probably unmaintained yum repo: http://www.oss4aix.org/download/RPMS/graphviz/
Due to dependancy issues (requirements from Graphviz and so on), I am unable to install yum or dnf in a clean way and perorm a dnf update. Too many issues with dependancies due to the fact there is no newer Graphviz version available
Graphviz is 'natively' available on RHEL (RHEL8 Appstream repo) and even Solaris. Would be great if we can have it integrated into AIX_Toolbox
Thank you :)
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Lionel Widmer
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