P-ware is an actively supported repository of AIX packages which seems to be far more up to date than BullFreeware or IBM's own Toolbox for Linux site. It can be found at:- http://pware.hvcc.edu. Downloaded packages are also stored on b0045nim under /export/dsl/freeware/pware/. Please store any additional files you download to this location.
Rather than use rpm or tarballs, pware is built to use AIX's own package manager, so installed packages show up along with AIX packages, however the install root is /opt/pware64 so no clashes occur with existing IBM packages. eg nano installed from pware shows up as:-
bash-3.00# lslpp -l | grep nano pware53-64.nano.rte 2.0.9.0 COMMITTED GNU nano 2.0.9 (64-bit) bash-3.00# lslpp -h pware53-64.nano.rte Fileset Level Action Status Date Time ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Path: /usr/lib/objrepos pware53-64.nano.rte 2.0.9.0 COMMIT COMPLETE 01/04/10 10:34:29
Current files downloaded from pware have been stored on b0045nim under /export/dsl/freeware/pware.
Freeware is an incorrect term to use here (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware)
Freeware may or may not be free and open source software and, in order to distinguish, the Free Software Foundation asks users to avoid calling “freeware” free software. The principal difference being that free software can be used, studied, and modified without restriction; free software embodies the concept of freedom to use, while freeware that of free-of-charge.
If this has been done ok, this will work:-
bash-3.00# which nano /opt/pware64/bin/nano