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Procedure documentation Installations/Updates with the Red Hat Package Manager Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You install or update components of the database software on Linux. All required information is specified on the command line, together with the command for starting the installation program.

You must take into account the dependencies between the software components to ensure that the software installation is fully functioning.

Prerequisites

·        You need to be in a root shell.

·        You need to be able to access the rpm packages that you want to install from your computer.

Procedure

First Installation of the Database Software

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       1.      Execute the installation command:
rpm -Uhv maxdb<package_name>.rpm

       2.      Add the /opt/sdb/programs/bin entry to the PATH environment variable for each user that wants to use the database system.

Updating the Database Software

Recommendation

Stop all existing database software on the computer on which you want to update the software version.

Stop the X Server program (vserver process). Remember that this interrupts the communication between the clients and all local database instances.

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       1.      To stop all database instances assigned to the installation directory that you want to update, enter the command:
dbmcli –d <database_name> -u <dbm_user>,<password> db_offline

       2.      Execute the installation command:
rpm -Uhv maxdb<package_name>.rpm

Result

The new version of the software components in the installation directory have been installed and registered.

Following Steps

You can now use Database Manager CLI and Database Manager GUI to create new database instances.

(See:

·        Creating a Database Instance in the Database Manager CLI documentation or

·        Creating a Database Instance in the Database Manager GUI documentation

If you have installed Web Tools, you now need to define a number of settings in order to use these tools.

See: Configuring the Software to Use MaxDB Web Tools

 

 

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