[Yum] Unable to install yum client on AIX

[pvsaradhi at gmail.com]

Thank you Kir for your response.
Installing python on AIX required several other dependencies. I have finally
got the python installed. However, I could not find libxml2-python package
for AIX. I tried installing yum ignoring this dependency, however, yum
client does not work without libxml2-python.

Do you know where I could get this libxml2-python package for AIX?
Thank you,
Best Regards,
Saradhi.



On 8/27/07, Kir Kolyshkin <kir at openvz.org> wrote:
>
> pvsaradhi at gmail.com wrote:
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I am prototyping YUM tool for RPM package management in my network, it
> > works great on Linux machines. My environment also includes other
> > flavors of UNIX: AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX. I tried to extend YUM to
> > these flavors of UNIX and could not get YUM to install on AIX server
> > (I haven't tried other flavors yet, but am guessing I would have
> > similar problems).
> >
> > Following is the output I get when trying to install yum on AIX server:
> > AIXSVR:/home/saradhi#rpm -ivh yum-2.0.8-1.noarch.rpm
> > error: failed dependencies:
> >         /bin/bash   is needed by yum-2.0.8-1
> >         /sbin/chkconfig   is needed by yum-2.0.8-1
> >         /sbin/service   is needed by yum-2.0.8-1
> >         /usr/bin/python   is needed by yum-2.0.8-1
> >         libxml2-python is needed by yum-2.0.8-1
> >         python is needed by yum-2.0.8-1
> >         rpm >= 0:4.1.1 is needed by yum-2.0.8-1
> >         rpm-python is needed by yum-2.0.8-1
> > AIXSVR:/home/saradhi#
> >
> > I can download bash and python from IBM site, however I could not
> > find /sbin/chkconfig and /sbin/service for AIX.
> >
> > Could someone please help me resolve this problem.
> >
> This is because yum rpm package does some post-installation trickery
> using the above two (redhat-specific -- that hints me you took this rpm
> from some Red Hat or Fedora distro) script.
>
> I guess you have two options here:
> 1. (after satisfying all the other dependencies) run rpm -ihv --nodeps
> --noscripts yum*.rpm to avoid rpm complaining about missing deps, and
> not running post-install scripts. This should not affect basic yum
> functionality -- will work anyway.
> 2. Rebuild yum.rpm, removing those deps and removing chkconfig and
> service calls from postinstall scripts.
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