You install or update components of the SAP DB software on Linux. You specify all required information on the command line, together with the command for starting the installation program.
You must take into account the dependencies between the SAP DB components to guarantee that the software installation can function.
If you have already installed SAP DB software on
your server with the Red Hat Package Manager (installation with rpm package),
then you can now use this program only for subsequent installations and
updates.
You cannot use the
SDBINST program for installations and updates (installation with tgz
package).
· You are in a root shell.
· You can access the rpm packages that you want to install from your computer.
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1.
Execute the
installation command:
rpm -Uhv
sapdb*.rpm
2. Add the entry /opt/sapdb/indep_prog/bin to the environment variable PATH for each user that wants to use SAP DB.
Stop all existing SAP DB software on the server where you want to update the SAP DB 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.
Stop all SAP
DB database instances assigned to the installation directory that you want to
update with the command
dbmcli –d
<database_name> -u <dbm_user>,<password>
db_offline
2.
Execute the
installation command:
rpm -Uhv
sapdb*.rpm
The SAP DB software components in the installation directory have been installed and registered in their new version.
You can now create new database instances with the Database Manager
(See:
· Creating a Database Instance in Database Manager CLI: SAP DB 7.4 or
· the Web DBM documentation.)