Re: Summary: IBM DB2 installation on Woody
Holger Marzen wrote: Some notes for the installation of IBM DB2 v7.1 on Debian Woody Holger Marzen, 2003-08-21 Thanks for sharing your notes. I think that cross distribution compatibility is one of the important areas for Debian to concentrate on. I have some of the same issues you have with libraries. But I solved it somewhat differently. - make the usual symlinks for incompatible RedHat-software: cd /usr/lib ln -s /lib/libncurses.so.5 libncurses.so.4 Instead of doing this I used alien to convert the Red Hat versions of that library to deb format and then installed the deb. For this library alien does a perfect job of it. And the benefit is that you now have a deb you can install on future systems that need it. I keep a local repository with all of the fluff that needs to be installed on my machines without needing to gather them from all over. I create a meta package which I call rh62-compat which depends upon these libraries. ln -s libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 This one does have a debian equivalent. This is currently only in 'woody' and has been removed from 'testing' and 'unstable'. apt-get install libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 How does one find these packages? The Debian package can search the repositories. Put the name of the file in that you want to look for the package that contains it. So for the above you will find it in stable but not in testing or unstable. I now have a cached local copy. http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages If a library needed for Red Hat compatibility ever truly went away from Debian then I would use alien to convert the rpm over to deb and install the deb for the reasons stated above. To run the control center (db2cc) you have to install java (I used the recent sdk from Sun), make the appropriate symlink /usr/bin/java (on my machine /usr/bin/java - /opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/bin/java). Note that Blackdown Java is often installed by many Debian users and it installs an 'alternative' as /usr/bin/java. Not having tested it but I would guess that Blackdown's version of Java would handle the IBM scripts. In any case, it is useful to know that there may be an conflict on the /usr/bin/java if one tried to install both. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Summary: IBM DB2 installation on Woody
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:31:49AM +0200, Holger Marzen wrote: install rpm - apt-get install rpm - mkdir /var/lib/rpm - rpm --initdb Oof! Isn't it possible to use alien rather than trying to hack rpm to install RPM packages on Debian (which is usually dangerous)? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Summary: IBM DB2 installation on Woody
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:31:49AM +0200, Holger Marzen wrote: install rpm - apt-get install rpm - mkdir /var/lib/rpm - rpm --initdb Oof! Isn't it possible to use alien rather than trying to hack rpm to install RPM packages on Debian (which is usually dangerous)? DB2 is installed using an IBM-supplied installer, called db2setup. This installer runs rpm, so it's much simpler to use db2setup than figuring out which rpm package is what component. -- PGP/GPG Key-ID: http://blackhole.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xB5A1AFE1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
