Unfortunetly, I tried downloading from gzip.org the executable of gzip 1.2.4 for AIX 4.1.1 but the link is dead. Looking with google, I found other dead links.

Does anyone know a valid link to download an executable package with the 4Gb patch ^

Have a look at IBMs "AIX Toolbox for Linux" page. There get the rpm package first because all the other packages are in rpm format.

Here is a link: IBM - AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications - Easy Install

btw.: it was the second link to come up in Google when i entered "download AIX gzip".

I hope this helps.

bakunin

I hadn't check the site because it only contains the source code. I would to install RPM and then compile it. As I am slowly discovering lots of unattended long existing problems I am wondering how successfull a compile would be (our Sys admin is not a real Sys admin: only a few notes and rare occasions of practical work). I would probably have to start a business case just to compile something from the outside world.

How about trying to download what there is first and try to install it?

All the rpm-format packages there are already compiled for AIX (even labeled "Binary RPM"!) and you do not need to compile anything. While i do not know your company at all i rather doubt that you need to state a business case to install industry-standard software offered from the very vendor of the OS you are already using.

The rpm (Redhat Package Manager) package contains simply the package manager and it is in no way necessary to compile anything, it is just a prerequisite software to install rpm-format packages because AIX uses its own package manager "installp", which uses packages in a different (bff-) format.

I hope this helps.

bakunin