GZIP.TAR     Install & Use AIX 4.3.3.11

Install Procedure

Using Win XP download gzip_1_2.4a.tar and burn to CD.
On RS/6000 7011-250 put CD in.
# mount /cdrom
# cd /cdrom
# ls  shows it as gzip_1_2.tar   ( why the file name change by AIX see note below)
# cd /
# mkdir /gzip
# cp /cdrom/gzip_1_2.tar  /gzip
# cd /gzip
# ls shows gzip_1_2.tar is there
# cd /
# unmount /cdrom
take CD out of drive.
Now to untar
I must be in directory of .tar file.
# cd /gzip
# tar xf /gzip/gzip_1_2.tar
# ls shows gzip_1_2.tar and a folder usr
# cd /usr and it shows a folder local
# cd /local
# ls it shows four folders bin  info  lib  man
# cd /bin and it shows 10 files gunzip gzexe gzip zcat zcomp zdiff z force zgrep zmore znew 


Use procedure

You must be in the folder where the file to be unzipped is


# /gzip/usr/local/bin/gzip  xxxxx where xxxx is the file 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.