Installing Open Source Software on AIX
Last year I wrote about installing open source software on two commercial UNIXes, Solaris and HP-UX. Today I want to document how to install a few software packages on another commercial UNIX -- AIX. First, I needed to get the ever popular wget onto the AIX 5.1 box to make retrieval of other software easier. I retrieved a wget package from UCLA's Public Domain Software Library for AIX using ftp. I then followed their instructions to extract and install the binary package: # zcat wget.1.9.1.tar.Z | (cd /; tar xvpf -) x ./usr/local/bin/wget, 619059 bytes, 1210 media blocks. x ./usr/local/info/wget.info, 2576 bytes, 6 media blocks. x ./usr/local/info/wget.info-1, 45301 bytes, 89 media blocks. x ./usr/local/info/wget.info-2, 50448 bytes, 99 media blocks. x ./usr/local/info/wget.info-3, 44699 bytes, 88 media blocks. x ./usr/local/info/wget.info-4, 30878 bytes, 61 media blocks. x ./usr/local/man/man1/wget.1, 58351 bytes, 114 media blocks. That's it. Now I have /usr/local/...