AIX

Hi All,

I need to install xlC V10.1 on Unix AIX 5.3. As a prerequestee i checked whether any C++ compiler available on AIX or not. I have the given the below command as

lslpp -l xlC.rte xlC.aix50.rte

and output got is
Path: /usr/lib/objrepos
xlC.aix50.rte 6.0.0.13 COMMITTED C Set ++ Runtime for AIX 5.0
xlC.rte 6.0.0.0 COMMITTED C Set ++ Runtime

From the above output i can understand that my AIX server already having the xlC version 6.0 which supports AIX 5.0.

To install V10.1, do i need to uninstall this version or simply i can go ahead to install V10.1 also on the same server?

Thanks for the help
-- Raam

"rte" is short for "run-time environment" and what you have installed is no compiler at all. It is some libs and header files and is part of the standard OS.

Even if it would be part of the compiler (which it isn't) you wouldn't have to deinstall it in order to install the new version. This is one of the points in packaging software and versioning it. installp is quite capable to handle this sort of situation.

I hope this helps.

bakunin