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Linux Applications on pSeries
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Linux Applications on pSeries

by Dr. Jan-Rainer Lahmann, Luis Ferreira, Janethe Co, Bjorn Roden
February 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
328 pages
7h 36m
English
IBM Redbooks
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Chapter 2. AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications 51
2.3.18 How to install RPM and BFF packages with SMIT or geninstall
On AIX 5L it is also possible to use the AIX-specific system administrative tool,
the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT), in addition to the command line
tools such as rpm and the AIX-specific geninstall command.
The following example shows how to install Toolbox RPM packages using the
geninstall command:
geninstall -d package path package name | package filename
package path
specifies the path to the directory where the package file is stored.
The package name can be either the name of the package or the entire package
file name, package file name.
The package name for the FTPCOPY package could be ftpcopy-0.3.9-1, and the ...
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