Basic installation

The XL Fortran 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 Fortran provides an interactive utility that walks you through a basic installation. The xlf_install utility is located in the root directory of the installation image.

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

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

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

If all packages are successfully installed: