Re: Informix on Linux install
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Kyle Dansie wrote:
> So I found the informix download and got that off the FTP server.
> Unzipped the thing and found the readme file in the SE directory. I
> figured the readme file would have the install instructions, but no.
>
> It says follow the normal install procedures found in your product
> install guides. YAA RIGHT !!!!
>
> Pocked around on the web site for 15 minutes, finally found the
> Installation guide for unix (4352.pdf). Is this the correct doc for
> Linux or am I looking in all the wrong places?
There is a HOW-TO in process. Meanwhile:
There are complete installation instructions online on the web site.
Basically:
1) Create an Informix group: informix
2) Create an Informix user: informix as a member of group informix
3) Create an Informix home directory and an install directory
4) cd to the install directory
5) Export the following (you should add them to the login script also):
INFORMIXDIR=$PWD
INFORMIXSERVER=<aname for your server>
PATH=$INFORMIXDIR/bin:$PATH6) su root (without the '-' so you maintain the environment and cwd)
7) Untar the esql tar file
8) Execute the script installesql and follow the prompts using the Serial
number and Serial Key you got from the Web server.
9) Untar the SE engine tar file
10) Execute the script installse and follow the prompts using the same
Serial number and Key.
There are only a few more steps to being ready to create your first
database.
Art S. Kagel, kagel@bloomberg.net