Chapter 3. Porting Open Source Software to AIX 65
The new version can now be installed with the -i, -U, or -F options of the rpm
command. In the next example we install the RPM package with the -iv options of
the rpm command (install and verbose):
rpm -iv /opt/freeware/src/packages/RPMS/ppc/wget-1.8.2-1.aix5.2.ppc.rpm
The -i option with rpm will only work if wget is not already installed on the system.
If wget is already installed, use the -U or -F option with rpm.
3.4.3 How to build RPMs from patched Toolbox SRPMs
RPM packages generally get built from a series of source files and patches. The
source images should be used in their original form as they came from the home
site for that particular project. Any changes that are required to get t ...