Re: failed to install IDS 9.40.UC5 for Linux 32-bit

Posted in 2005

Valeriy Kravchuk — Thu, 2 Jun 2005 17:20:17 +0300 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

> I tried to install it on Mandrake 10.1 kernel 2.6.8 > I downloaded the trial version from the IBM site, I could not find > instructions on how to install it in such page, so I followed the general > instructions for a Linux RPM system Just solved the same problem with downloaded 9.40.UC1* and Fedora Core 1. Not an RPM-based install, but cpio-based, but looks like the same problem with it. > NOTE: It never asked me for the Serial number and activation key. Yes. > It created all the Informix's directories ( bin, demo, doc, etc) Yes. > I tried to test the installation and I ran: > /opt/informix/bin/onmonitor > > but it complain that the serial key and registration is missing. > > Did somebody run into the same problem? > Am I missing something? You should run as root the RUN_AS_ROOT.server script in the INFORMIXDIR. It helped. After that all started to work fine. I'm not sure this is suggested somewhere else besides the final note of the installserver skript... V.K.