Hi All,

OS: Redhat Enterprise Linux 5
DB2 v8.2

This is the first time I am installing DB2 on Linux. When I unpacked the tar ball, all I could see is 8 rpm packages, is this normal?

My understanding is that IBM does not recommend installing DB2 using rpm command also I am not sure what package to use out of the 8 packages?

Thanks

Where did you get it? You might want to download FP 16 from the IBM website and use the install script (or setup if you have x-windows).

I downloaded DB2 software from IBM Partner World. So it should have an install script but all I see is rpm packages.

Can you list the name and contents or the tar?

Andy

Sure.

The name of the tar file is C829GML.tar

contents are:

IBM_db2acsg81-8.1.2-88.i386.rpm
IBM_db2adsg81-8.1.2-88.i386.rpm
IBM_db2adtg81-8.1.2-88.i386.rpm
IBM_db2adtsg81-8.1.2-88.i386.rpm
IBM_db2cag81-8.1.2-88.i386.rpm
IBM_db2cj81-8.1.2-88.i386.rpm
IBM_db2cliv81-8.1.2-88.i386.rpm
IBM_db2crte81-8.1.2-88.i386.rpm

Did you run the following command?

tar -xvf C829GML.tar

Are you sure there are no directories created in addition to the packages?

Yes I was using tar -xvf C829GML.tar to untar the file.

I downloaded the software again and now I can see db2setup. Maybe it didn't download properly the first time.

Thanks

Please help me.I have C829GML .I want to install on Linux.So I want to know ,how to install .If somebody know ,explain me step by step.

look for db2setup or db2_install in the tar file

i have problem install db2 on linux "fedora 9".

when i install db2_install,
[root@biplus 334_ESE_LNX26_32_NLV]#./db2_install
display "/home......../334_ESE_LNX26_32_NLV/db2/linux26/bin/disp_msg: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.s0.5: cannot open shared object file: NO such file or directiory.

i can not resolve this error.
pls help

Find the readme file for the installation pre-requisites. Then run the "yum search" command to find the package needed, When you find the package, then run "yum update package-name" to install the missing pre-reqs.

Since the error message tells you the missing library, then you could probably skip reading the instructions to get the pre-reqs.

If you need more info on yum, do a google search (it has nothing to do with DB2, it is the way you get updates and new packages for Fedora).

Typically, there is a compat-stdc++ package (or similar) available, which provides libstdc++.so.5 your distribution.