INSTALL bzip2 onto AIX 4.3.3.11

Download bzip2-1.0.1.0.exe off the Bull web site onto an XP machine into folder BZIP2.
Still on XP machine right click and extract to here ie BZIP2 folder.
You get bzip-1.0.1.0.bff.asc and bzip2-1.0.1.0.bff
Copy onto a Cd
On AIX machine
Copy the 2 files off CD into a folder /bzip2
They will look like bzip2_1_.asc and bzip2_1_.bff
From root
# inutoc /bzip2 and you end up with a third file called .toc
Now to install 
smit/Software install & mtce/install & update software/Install & update for ALL avail software
put in as directory /bzip2
In next screen Software to install click LIST
On next screen highlight  bzip2
On checking /bzip2 folder the bzip2 file is not there
Go to root
# find / -name bzip2 -print and it shows /usr/local/bin/bzip2
bzip2 is the actual operating file.

To Use the File

Be in folder where the file you want to unzip is

# /usr/local/bin/bzip2    xxxxx where xxxx is the file name to be unzipped


Uli Notes

(1)On WinXP you can *not* create a Rockridge Filesystem with UNIX naming
conventions for CD-ROMs. On Windows you'll see the Joliet Filesystem, which
is ignored by AIX.
AIX falls back the ISO9660 instead.
That's why the filenames seem to change.

(2)"inutoc" needs to be run before smitty installation of AIX' installp
packages on Read-Only media. If the directory is writeable, the ".toc" file
will be created without calling "inutoc" before. If there is no installp
package in the directory "inutoc" won't extract any headers from the
packages to resolv interpackage dependancies. Nothing happens.

If a package isn't in AIX' installp package format. So inutoc won't
help anything and you cannot install/deinstall it through smitty.

(3)If a file is executable, the permissions must be set executable too.

$ file gzip
gzip:           executable (RISC System/6000) or object module

$ls -la gzip
-rwxr-xr-x   3 root     system     66303 Sep 08 2003  gzip

You can make a file executable in the filesystem by

$chmod 755 gzip

755 is equivalent to -rwxr-xr-x  

(4)"smitty" install the package "rpm.rte" version 3.0.5.36 and you'll have gzip, bzip2 on your
system.