Hi,
I'm also struggling with the installation of DB2 under debian.
Here's what I have so far:
I created a /bin/rpm file as follows:
#!/bin/sh
alien --to-deb -i $2
I symlinked the following:
/bin/awk -> /usr/bin/gawk
/bin/basename -> /usr/bin/basename
/bin/compress -> /usr/bin/compress
/bin/grep -> /usr/bin/grep
/bin/egrep -> /usr/bin/egrep
/bin/sed -> /usr/bin/sed
/bin/touch -> /usr/bin/touch
I found a news post that gives the following information:
The problem with connecting using a userid and password if you are
shadowing passwords turns out to be a bug in the install script. A
couple of files in sqllib/security should have suid bits set but the
install is not doing this. To fix this, cd to ~/sqllib/security on
the instance id and do:
chmod g+s db2flacc
chmod u+s db2aud
then su to root and do:
chmod ug+s db2ckpw
And I subscribed to the ibm.software.db2.udb.linux.beta newsgroup at
news.software.ibm.com.
Status:
The thing's installed (appears to be, at least), but at the point it tries (or
I try) to create the sample instance with this:
db2icrt -a SERVER -u db2fenc1 db2inst1
I'm getting horrible errors, worst of which is this beauty:
SQL10007N Message "-1390" could not be retrieved. Reason code: "2"
Which, I think, means that it got an error, but it can't tell me what it is :)
Some problem with localisation, I surmise.
I have netsearched newsgroups for some clue as to what -1390 might mean, and
it appears to be this:
SQL1390C The environment variable DB2INSTANCE is not defined or is invalid.
(Can I just point out, for the easily amused, that -1390 is represented as
1390C in one of the horrible numeric formats they use for COBOL? Welcome to
the 70s. :)
Colin.
