Setting up application services

Setting up AIX application services

Application software besides the OS and its extensions should go into a separate filesystem(s) residing on volume groups other than rootvg. Such a volume group should be set up like volume groups on a fileserver.

Commercial packages

Freeware packages

A catalogue of freeware applications may be found here. Note that several of those packages install into /usr/local, which is unwanted if the machine will be an NFS client using this directory as a mount point. Assume a target directory /applfs/applb00/AIX/52/.

PDSlib packages from UCLA usually come as .tar.Z files and go into ./usr/local. Hence they can be installed as follows

cd /
mkdir -p /applfs/applb01/AIX/52/package 
ln -sf   /applfs/applb01/AIX/52/package ./usr/local
uncompress package.tar.Z | tar -xvf -

Bull freeware packages are self-extracting archives (.exe) with smittable content. They will install into /usr/local directly. Hence
```
mkdir -p /applfs/applb01/AIX/52/package 
ln -sf   /applfs/applb01/AIX/52/package /usr/local
chmod u+x package.exe
package.exe
inutoc ./                      # creates a toc, if not there
```
creates a bff and an asc PGP file. With these files smitty - Install is your friend.

Packages with no predefined path may just be unpacked as is, for example:

mkdir -p /applfs/applb01/AIX/52/package 
cd       /applfs/applb01/AIX/52/package 
zcat package.tar.Z | tar -xvf -

Last update: 17-Dec-2011, M.Kraemer