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Installation of Python/iX should be straightforward. The binaries
are distributed as a gzip'ed tar archive that need to be unpacked.
Please note: Python/iX is not supported and has not been
tested on any MPE/iX release newer than 6.0.
Prerequisites
Software
You will need the following software on your machine in order to unpack
the archive:
- gzip - Available as part of the GNUCORE distribution on Jazz
This release supports only versions 5.5 and 6.0
of MPE/iX.
Disk space
Python/iX takes up about 12 MB of disk space under /usr/local/.
The installation process temporarily requires double this amount of free
space.
Installation procedure
- Download the binary distribution. If using FTP, please ensure that
you download it in BINARY mode.
- Check the checksums of the downloaded files:
2887512553 2256218 pythonix-5.5.tar.gz
3382954685 2256410 pythonix-6.0.tar.gz
- Uncompress the distribution file using gzip, yielding a TAR file:
(shell/iX) $ gzip -d pythonix-6.0.tar.gz
(shell/iX) $ ls pythonix-6.0.tar
pythonix-6.0.tar
- Extract the distribution using TAR:
(shell/iX) $ tar -xvopf pythonix-6.0.tar
... lots of messages deleted ...
This will create the necessary files under /usr/local/.
- Ensure that /usr/local/bin is in your shells PATH.
Python/iX should now be ready to use!
(shell/iX) $ python
Python 1.5.1 (#1, Nov 13 1998, 13:03:55) [C] on mpeixC
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
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Last modified: 04 April 2006
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