Basic installation

The XL C/C++ installation uses the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM), which is the standard utility for installing Linux(R) packages. The rpm utility is shipped with the operating system.

XL C/C++ provides an interactive utility that walks you through a basic installation. The xlc_install utility is located in the root directory of the installation image.

Note:
Because the xlc_install utility is written in Perl, you must ensure that Perl is installed on your system before you run the xlc_install utility. See Verifying that the required GNU, Perl, Java, and browser packages are installed.

Use the xlc_install utility to install the compiler only if you are:

Following employment of the xlc_install utility, an installation log is generated. Its location is /tmp/.

If all packages are successfully installed: