From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 21 10:47:55 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA12038 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 10:47:55 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA12032 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 10:47:51 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA04040; Fri, 21 Apr 95 11:40:42 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504211740.AA04040@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Install Procedure for xvgr-2.10pl1.tgz on IBM RISC/6000 w/ Unix To: mpelella@VNET.IBM.COM Date: Fri, 21 Apr 95 11:40:41 MDT Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <1995Apr21.101702.78659@vnet.ibm.com> from "mpelella@VNET.IBM.COM" at Apr 21, 95 10:17:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > What is the install procedure for xvgr-2.10pl1.tgz on an IBM RISC/6000 > with AIX(IBM's UNIX equivalent)? The tgz extension is indicative of a BSD package format binary image, Which is basically a gzipped tar image. So you would gunzip it with the gzip utilities (I believe they are on prep.ai.mit.edu, or in the BSD source tree under /usr/src/gnu/...), then you would untar it, and then there are package controls built into some well-known file names in that archive. If you are getting a source package, you might be better off going to the home site for the package instead of taking it our of the FreeBSD archives. Note that BSD/Intel binaries, even if properly extracted, will not run on AIX on an RS/6000. You *must* get source and you *must* build it yourself. It is possible that the home site for the software in the package will have prebuilt AIX binaries for you. Determining the home site from the package requires pulling out the documentation. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.