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Find required components for installing a particular .bff file

  • 1.  Find required components for installing a particular .bff file

    Posted Wed August 22, 2007 06:32 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Is it possible to extract a .bff file to get the header information like the .rpm file, so I can find out what the dependency is?
    (I tried smitty, and it did split out the required components, however I cannot use smitty in some cases.)

    Thanks in advance.

    -Dawson
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  • 2.  inutoc

    Posted Fri August 24, 2007 11:13 AM

    Originally posted by: nagger


    cd to the directory the installable files are in and run: inutoc .
    Note: the "."

    Then vi the .toc file for the pre-reqs, files and etc.

    Hope this helps, N
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