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Re: Installing ICONNECT on IDS 9.21.UC4/RedHat 2.4.18

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Hi,

please consider the following :

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rpm on RedHat and $INFORMIXDIR Problem

Trying to install IDS rpm package on RedHat keeps producing the
following message:

ERROR: INFORMIXDIR doesn't match the target directory name
provided in the rpm command ...

This is a known rpm bug in RedHat Linux, see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75057
for more information.

The bug should be fixed in rpm-4.2-0.42 .

Solution:

The following workarounds are possible:

1. Using rpm for the installation, the package can only be installed
into
/opt/informix directory. In order to do so you need to set two
environment
variables like this:

export RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/informix
export INFORMIXDIR=/opt/informix

2. To install the package into a directory other than /opt/informix ,
you have
to convert the package from rpm format to cpio format:

rpm2cpio IDS.rpm > IDS.cpio

Then install the resulting cpio package the same way as on other
platforms,
i.e. with commands like the following:

cpio -icdumvB < IDS.cpio
installserver

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Regards,
Martin
--
Martin Fuerderer
IBM Informix Development Munich
Data Management Solutions





"ROBERT FARRELL" <rob_farrell@nynp.uscourts.gov>
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09.05.2003 00:12


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Subject: Installing ICONNECT on IDS 9.21.UC4/RedHat 2.4.18 [1096]



I am trying to install ICONNECT on a RedHat 8 machine running IDS 2000.
I get an error stating that the install script cannot find the conncontent
file. Any ideas?

$ uname -a
Linux ******* 2.4.18-27.8.0 #1 Fri Mar 14 06:45:49 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux


$ onstat -
Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.21.UC4 -- On-Line -- Up
00:00:13 -- 19104 Kbytes


$ rpm -iv --force conn.rpm
Preparing packages for installation...

ERROR: INFORMIXDIR does not match the target directory name provided in
the rpm command. If you are not installing this product in the
default INFORMIXDIR name for Linux (/opt/informix), you MUST provide
your INFORMIXDIR directory name with the --prefix (RPM 2.X syntax)
or --relocate (RPM 3.X syntax) parameter in your rpm -i command line.

Example: rpm -i --relocate /opt/informix=$INFORMIXDIR <package>.rpm.

Hit the interrupt key NOW to abort RPM.
OVERRIDE


Installed version: 2.60.UC1
New version: 2.60.UC1

Do you want to overwrite version 2.60.UC1? (yes or no)
y
iconn-2.60.UC1-1

Is I-Connect being installed along with Informix database server
version 9.x?
(yes or no)
y

Your existing INFORMIX shared libraries, if any, will be replaced and
upgraded.
Are you sure? [yes/no]
y

*** INSTALL ABORTED ***

Cannot find conncontent file
error: %post(iconn-2.60.UC1-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

Messages In This Thread

• Installing ICONNECT on IDS 9.21.UC4/RedHat 2.4.18
  ROBERT FARRELL -- Thursday, 8 May 2003, at 6:12 p.m.
  • Re: Installing ICONNECT on IDS 9.21.UC4/RedHat 2.4.18
    Martin Fuerderer -- Friday, 9 May 2003, at 3:30 a.m.

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