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Installing Veeam Agent for IBM AIX with RPM

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    You can install Veeam Agent for IBM AIX and prerequisite software components from the packages in the RPM format. The installation process differs depending on what version of the RPM tool runs in your system: RPM version 3 or RPM version 4.

    Installing Veeam Agent for IBM AIX with RPM Version 3

    To install Veeam Agent for IBM AIX with RPM version 3:

    1. Obtain the Veeam Agent for IBM AIX installation archive.
    2. Extract the contents of the installation archive to a directory that can be accessed from the machine where you want to install the product. For example, this can be a directory in the local file system or an NFS directory.
    3. Navigate to the directory that contains RPM packages. The RPM packages are located in the /Release_AIX_aixppc64/rpms sub-directory of the directory where you extracted the archive.
    4. [Optional] To check whether any prerequisite software components are already installed in the system, use the following command:

    # rpm -q ofpthread64libs ncurses zip screen popt libxml2 rsync

    1. Use the following command to install Veeam Agent for IBM AIX and prerequisite software packages in the correct sequence:

    # rpm -ivh ofpthread64libs-1.0.0.ppc64.rpm ncurses-6.0.0.ppc64.rpm zip-2.3.0.ppc64.rpm screen-4.0.3-1.ppc64.rpm popt-1.7.1.ppc64.rpm libxml2-2.6.21.ppc64.rpm VeeamAgent-1.0.0.39-ppc64.rpm rsync-2.6.2.ppc64.rpm

     

    Installing Veeam Agent for IBM AIX with RPM Note:

    You cannot use the rpm -ivh *.rpm command to install Veeam Agent for IBM AIX in a system that runs RPM version 3, because this version of the RPM tool does not manage package dependencies. Instead, it installs packages that reside in the current directory in the lexicographical order. Thus, if you try to install Veeam Agent for IBM AIX with the rpm -ivh *.rpm command, RPM will install the VeeamAgent package before the ofpthread64libs package, and the installation process will fail.

     

    Installing Veeam Agent for IBM AIX with RPM Version 4

    To install Veeam Agent for IBM AIX with RPM version 4:

    1. Obtain the Veeam Agent for IBM AIX installation archive.
    2. Extract the contents of the installation archive to a directory that can be accessed from the machine where you want to install the product. For example, this can be a directory in the local file system or an NFS directory.
    3. Navigate to the directory that contains RPM packages. The RPM packages are located in the /Release_AIX_aixppc64/rpms sub-directory of the directory where you extracted the archive.
    4. Remove the popt-1.7.1.ppc64.rpm package from the /rpms directory.
    5. [Optional] To check whether any prerequisite software components are already installed in the system, use the following command:

    # rpm -q ofpthread64libs ncurses zip screen libxml2 rsync

    1. Use the following command to install Veeam Agent for IBM AIX and prerequisite software packages:

    # rpm -ivh *.rpm --nodeps

     

    Installing Veeam Agent for IBM AIX with RPM Tip:

    Instead of removing the popt-1.7.1.ppc64.rpm package from the package directory and then running the rpm -ivh *.rpm --nodeps command, you can install Veeam Agent for IBM AIX and its dependencies using the following command: rpm -ivh ofpthread64libs-1.0.0.ppc64.rpm ncurses-6.0.0.ppc64.rpm zip-2.3.0.ppc64.rpm screen-4.0.3-1.ppc64.rpm libxml2-2.6.21.ppc64.rpm VeeamAgent-1.0.0.39-ppc64.rpm rsync-2.6.2.ppc64.rpm.