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  • 1.  I went to ESS and downloaded what I thought would be aix linux toolbox

    Posted Mon March 27, 2023 05:42 PM

    I went to ESS and downloaded what I thought would be aix linux toolbox in order to create a repo ( dealing with infinite dependency problems).  It appears what I brought down was source?  Once I downloaded it and followed the instructions I ended up with /mnt/SRPMS however the instructions said it should be - /mnt/RPMS.  There are ton of rpms in there, but I cannot figure out the next step.  In the old days I think you would do a createrepo ( our aix servers do not have access to the internet) for a local repo.  I did run one make from some instructions in the readme - rpm -hUv make-4.3-1.src.rpm successfully.  But I am stuck.  Not sure what to do



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    william buffington
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  • 2.  RE: I went to ESS and downloaded what I thought would be aix linux toolbox

    Posted Tue March 28, 2023 10:36 AM

    You grabbed the source instead of the apps release. The apps release has both a tar.gz and an iso. Extract or copy that to your filesystem somewhere and point a webserver at it. Then update your dnf.conf so it can find the repos, which are already made. No need for createrepo.

    If you have dependency issues,

    1. Make sure you have the correct openssl/openssh installed. AIX 7.2 needs openssl 1.1.1 which is not in the AIX updates. See this. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/downloading-and-installing-or-upgrading-openssl-and-openssh
    2. run updtvpkg to make rpm aware of lpp packages it depends on.
    3. Make sure your AIX is properly up to date in terms of lpp's.


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    Mario
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  • 3.  RE: I went to ESS and downloaded what I thought would be aix linux toolbox

    Posted Wed March 29, 2023 02:01 PM

    You can have a  look at this post.

    https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/blogs/sangamesh-mallayya1/2022/02/09/creating-local-repo-with-dnf-and-aix-toolbox-media?CommunityKey=10c1d831-47ee-4d92-a138-b03f7896f7c9



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    SANGAMESH
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  • 4.  RE: I went to ESS and downloaded what I thought would be aix linux toolbox

    Posted Wed March 29, 2023 04:15 PM

    Thanks for the help.  That was great, fixed it



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    william buffington
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