Installing ICONNECT on IDS 9.21.UC4/RedHat 2.4.18
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.rpmPreparing 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
Hi,
please consider the following :
-----------------------
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
-----------------------
Regards,
Martin
--
Martin Fuerderer
IBM Informix Development Munich
Data Management Solutions
"ROBERT FARRELL" <rob_farrell@nynp.uscourts.gov>
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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.rpmPreparing 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