AIX

Hi all
I'm newbie
In this forum, i have posted some topics about zip and unzip a file on AIX system.
And i have some answers so that AIX can not work with zip file, and they tell me some files to zip and unzip my files on AIX such as:

zip-2.3-3.aix4.3.ppc.rpm
unzip-5.51-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
unzip-5.50-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm

Can you tell me what type of those files?
and how can i use it to zip and unzip my files on AIX?
Is it an application, how can i install it and use it?

Sorry my english.
thanks a lot.

i am not sure about zip on aix. but if you download either the .tar or .gz
versions of these files then you can use "tar" and "gunzip" respectively (or both if its a .gz.tar) to expand these files.
refer to "tar" and "gunzip" commands for the format.

regards.

leenguyen0101,

The three files you list are rpm's and can be installed on AIX with the command "rpm -i filename.rpm". rpm will use wild cards so if those are th e only 3 rpm's you want to install then cd to the directory they are in and enter "rpm -i *rpm" and every rpm in the directory will try to install. Be very careful with wildcards though. It is safer to not use them until you are confident.

Once those three rpm's are installed then you should be able to use zip and gzip and their variants.