Re: Summary: IBM DB2 installation on Woody

2003-08-23 Thread Bob Proulx
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

Re: Summary: IBM DB2 installation on Woody

2003-08-21 Thread Holger Marzen
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

Re: FYI: IBM DB2 installation on Woody

2003-08-21 Thread John Stevenson
I succeeded today in installing IBM DB2 7.1 on Debian Woody. Since I have found many unanswered questions in the WWW I think that somebody might be interested. Regards Holger Are you going to provide us with any more details of what you did? Problems that you came accross and solved? It w

Re: Summary: IBM DB2 installation on Woody

2003-08-21 Thread Colin Watson
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

Summary: IBM DB2 installation on Woody

2003-08-21 Thread Holger Marzen
t; | sed 's/-ivh /-ivh --nodeps /'` /usr/bin/rpm $ARGS - make the usual symlinks for "incompatible" RedHat-software: cd /usr/lib ln -s /lib/libncurses.so.5 libncurses.so.4 ln -s libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 Now you should be able to mount the

Re: FYI: IBM DB2 installation on Woody

2003-08-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 11:20, Holger Marzen wrote: > I succeeded today in installing IBM DB2 7.1 on Debian Woody. Since I > have found many unanswered questions in the WWW I think that somebody > might be interested. Could you write up a little HOWTO or "lessons learned", and post it here? -- ---

FYI: IBM DB2 installation on Woody

2003-08-20 Thread Holger Marzen
I succeeded today in installing IBM DB2 7.1 on Debian Woody. Since I have found many unanswered questions in the WWW I think that somebody might be interested. Regards Holger -- PGP/GPG Key-ID: http://blackhole.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB5A1AFE1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: [Fwd: db2 installation]

2000-02-08 Thread Vincent Morlot
I have found From Jani Laakso<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in comp.databases.ibm-db2 and i have test it successfully Packages as rpm, pdksh, ncompress are needed ldd must exist (/usr/bin/ldd) use alien to convert .rpm in .deb alien --to-deb --scripts *.rpm install .deb packages dpkg -i *.deb make some s

Re: db2 installation

2000-02-01 Thread hypnos
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Shane Wegner wrote: > Hi all, > > I was just looking at IBM's DB2 package and would like to install it on > Debian. However, it looks like it is going to use rpm to install the > packages and as I understand it, you can't do that on Debian. Does anyone > know of a db2 insta

db2 installation

2000-01-31 Thread Shane Wegner
Hi all, I was just looking at IBM's DB2 package and would like to install it on Debian. However, it looks like it is going to use rpm to install the packages and as I understand it, you can't do that on Debian. Does anyone know of a db2 installer Debian package or how I can patch db2setup and db