Originally posted by: strikr

Hi:

The AIX toolbox lists out the package that are available in RPM format.

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/altlic.html

and then there is a yum.sh script file to be downloaded

https://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/ezinstall/ppc/yum.sh

I curious to know, if there is a way to bypass the RPM and install the binary package. 

something along these lines (cf. rpmextract.sh from ArchLinux)

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/rpmextract.sh?h=rpm-org

#!/bin/sh
if [ "$1" = "" -o ! -e "$1" ]; then
    echo "no package supplied" 1>&2
   exit 1
fi
bsdtar xf $1

The reason i ask this is because, an installation of a RPM package doesn't install it's dependencies anyway, then why waste time and disk space on a bloated format ?

Anybody explored along these lines ?

Originally posted by: sangameshm

RPM is a way to track what files are installed by which packages and efficient way to install/uninstall binary files on the machine.

YUM is the RPM packages manager which takes care of the RPM install/uninstallation with the dependency in mind.

yum.sh is provided to easily setup the yum on AIX system, one who wants use yum can run yum.sh scripts.

Then later one can use yum commands to install and uninstall a RPM packages.

Thanks,

Sangamesh

Originally posted by: strikr

It appears you did not understand what was highlighted or asked !