Previewing the installation and license agreements

Before installing IBM® XL C for AIX®, V13.1, you can verify the default installation process, check file sizes and disk space, and preview the license agreements using either the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) or the installp command.

The terms and conditions for using XL C are specified in the following PDF files, which are located in the root directory of the distribution package:

LicenseAgreement.pdf
license.pdf

Note: For the evaluation copy of the XL C for AIX compiler, the license files are LicenseAgreement.EVAL.pdf and license.EVAL.pdf.

These license files can be found in the /opt/IBM/xlc/13.1.0/ directory after basic installation.

Note: You can use the utilization tracking and reporting feature to ensure the compiler usage is compliant with the number of Concurrent User licenses you have purchased. For more information, see Tracking and reporting compiler usage in the XL C Compiler Reference.

Using SMIT

You can use the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) to preview the basic XL C installation.

Follow the steps to install the compiler to the default location given in Using SMIT. When prompted with the SMIT dialog to customize the installation in step 3, set the Preview only? field to yes. With this setting enabled, SMIT displays progress messages at each stage of the installation but does not actually install the compiler on your system.

Using installp

You can also preview the command line installation process and write the output to a log file, using the installp command. Follow the steps to install the compiler to the default location given in Using installp and specify the -p flag to preview the process without installing the compiler.

The following example previews the installation of all the available compiler filesets in the /cdrom/usr/sys/inst.images source directory and writes an installation log file to /tmp/install.log.

Example:

installp -paXgd /cdrom/usr/sys/inst.images -e /tmp/install.log all

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