Before you begin the installation, you should ensure that your system meets all of the memory, hardware, and software requirements to install your DB2 product. For more information, see Planning for Installation.
You also need to ensure that your workstation is enabled for a DB2 product installation. Depending on your Linux distribution, you may need to perform certain tasks before installing a DB2 product on your system. The following sections describe what you need to do on your particular Linux distribution.
The only preparation work that you need to do to install your DB2 product on a workstation that is running Red Hat Linux Version 6.1 or later is to add the required pdksh package that is not part of a Red Hat default installation. This package is available in the /RedHat/RPMS directory on the Red Hat CD-ROM. Refer to your Linux documentation for information on how to install this package using the rpm command.
The SuSE Version 6.3 default installation is fairly simple to enable for a DB2 product installation. Any DB2 product on Linux requires glibc 2.1.2 or higher to run. The SuSE installation comes with this package, however, this distribution refers to this package by a different name. SuSE calls this package shlibs. This causes problems because the DB2 Installer program fails to recognize the existence of the required glibc package, and ultimately fails. A 'dummy' glibc rpm is included on the DB2 CD-ROM. If you install this package, the installation will run smoothly. The package is called glibc-2.2.1-2.rpm and is located in the /db2/install/dummyrpm directory on the DB2 CD-ROM. Refer to your Linux documentation for information on how to install this package using the rpm command.
To enable your Turbo Linux Version 6.0 or later workstation for a DB2 product installation, you need to add the pdksh package. This is the only prerequisite that is missing from a default installation. This package is available on the Turbo Linux CD-ROM and is located in the /TurboLinux/RPMS directory. Refer to your Linux documentation for information on how to install this package using the rpm command.
Caldera Open Linux Version 2.3 is missing the required pdksh package from a default installation. This pdksh package is on the Caldera Version 2.3 CD-ROM, however, it currently is not compatible with any DB2 products. Instead, you can use a Red Hat pdksh package.
To enable your Caldera workstation for any DB2 product installation using a Red Hat pdksh package, download the pdksh-5.2.13-3.i386 package (or a later version) from the Red Hat mirror web site at: www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html. Because this is a Red Hat package, you will receive a dependency error on the glibc package if you try to install it. The glibc package is automatically installed with Caldera Version 2.3. You can therefore ignore this error, it is a result of different naming conventions between distribution vendors. To bypass this error, you will have to install this package using the no dependencies option (for example, the rpm -i --nodeps command). Refer to your Linux documentation for information on how to install this package using the rpm command.