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Problem installing C11.0.5 on AIX 7.1

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Question

The program fails with following result regardless of -i option used (console, gui, swing). Below there is output from console ./ca_srv_aix64_11.0.5.16111917.bin Preparing to install Extracting the JRE from the installer archive Unpacking the JRE Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive Configuring the installer for this system's environment Launching installer Graphical installers are not supported by the VM. The console mode will be used instead =============================================================================== Choose Locale 1- Deutsch ->2- English 3- Espanol 4- Francais 5- Italiano 6- Portugues (Brasil CHOOSE LOCALE BY NUMBER: 2 ======================================================= Installer User Interface Mode Not Supported The installer cannot run in this UI mode. To specify the interface mode, use the -i command-line option, followed by the UI mode identifier. The valid UI modes identifiers are GUI, Console, and Silent. X11 forwarding is enabled and no problem to run GUI programs (xclock, xterm) from same session.

Cause

In the user environment, the variable LIBPATH is setting to /opt/freeware/lib

env
LIBPATH=/opt/freeware/lib
...

Answer

Unset the variable to fix the problem

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Document Information

Modified date:
15 June 2018

UID

swg21996259