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Linux stuff in the AIX neighbourhood

When I logged in into the AIX system for a very first time I had experienced the beauty of IBM system, and helplessness. I had known only the four AIX specific commands, and a bunch of experiences from Sun Solaris system.

The first stonghold was the ksh system shell. No history. No command completion. "No" in a way I used to use it. It took me a while to find out the fc cmd.
So, the fist thought was to bring in the zsh.

But... in order to make it possible, I have to know - HOW and FROM.
The Solaris has got it's sunfreeware.com and blastwave.org. AIX - rpm database of ppc packages.

Here it is: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/alpha.html
How to get the rpm itself: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/altlic.html

The rest is as simple as:

# rpm -i zsh*rpm

... after installing the dependencies ;-) (rpm packages: coreutils, grep)

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