Installing Man Pages Using Installation Media (AIX 4.1 and 4.2)

The following discusses the software and procedures needed to set up both man pages and InfoExplorer in AIX version 4.1 and 4.2 systems.

This document applies to the InfoExplorer and man pages from the hard drive only.

These additional documents on how to set up man pages are available from 4FAX:

• man.pages.32.cmd (for AIX 3.2) 4Fax # 2443
• man.pages.43.cmd (for AIX 4.3) 4Fax # 9092
• man.pages.41-42.cdrom.cmd 4Fax # 5734
• techlib.install.32.41-42.cmd (Techlib CD-ROM) 4Fax # 5103

Please refer to Chapter 14 of the 4.1 System Management Guide (SC23-2525-01).

Prerequisites:

1. The LANG variable in your environment must be set to the correct value, en_US for US English. To display the variable, enter:

    
      echo $LANG 
   

   Use the command smit chlang to change the LANG variable.

2. The following filesets MUST be installed on the hard disk for man pages and InfoExplorer:

   bos.info.rte	Base System InfoExplorer
   bos.info.en_US.nav	Navigation Database-en_US
   bos.info.en_US.cmds_ref	Commands Database

   To determine if these filesets are installed on your system, use the command lslpp -l filesetname.

   To install the necessary filesets, use the command smit install_latest. For more information, refer to the AIX Installation Guide.

   In addition to bos.info.rte, bos.info.en_US.nav, and bos.info.en_US.cmds_ref, the following filesets should be installed according to your application needs.

   Databases include:

   pkg_gd	Package Installation Database for Current Media
   bos.info.en_US.info_help	Help for InfoExplorer - en_US
   bos.info.en_US.smit_help	Help for SMIT - en_US
   bos.info.en_US.adapters_gd_ref	Adapters Database
   bos.info.en_US.aix_tech_ref	AIX Technical Reference
   bos.info.en_US.assemb_ref	Assembler Database
   bos.info.en_US.files_ref	Files Database
   bos.info.en_US.manage_gds	AIX System Management Guides Database
   bos.info.en_US.probsolv_gds	AIX Problem Solving Guides Database
   bos.info.en_US.user_gds	AIX User Guides

To run graphical InfoExplorer, you should also install:

X11.info.rte	AIXwindows InfoExplorer Runtime
X11 info.en_US.Dt	AIXwindows Desktop Guide
X11 info.en_US.prog_gds	AIXwindows User Interface Programming Guides
X11.info.en_US.tech_ref	AIXwindows Technical Reference
X11.info.en_US.x_st_mgr.manage_gd	Xstation Manager/Administrators Guide

To run the common desktop environment (CDE) man pages, you should also install:

X11.man.en_US.Dt.adt	AIX CDE Toolkit Man Pages
X11.man.en_US.Dt.rte	AIX CDE Man Pages