13. Installing DB2 Version 8.2 on Fedora Core 4

Before proceeding, please ensure that you have read Section 3 and Section 4.

Note that IBM officially supports this distribution for DB2 UDB V8.2 only for application development or client purposes.

13.1. Pre-installation notes

Before installing DB2 UDB V8.2 on Fedora Core 4, you must install the following compatibility libraries:

compat-libgcc
compat-libstdc++

13.2. Installation

Installing with the DB2 Express Discovery Disc, the installation went smoothly.

13.3. Post-installation notes

To inherit the DB2 instance environment from another home directory, create databases, dynamically load the DB2 libraries, and other tasks, you must disable SELinux or modify the default SELinux policies. You can disable SELinux at run-time by running the following command as root:
# /usr/sbin/setenforce 0
Note that when you reboot SELinux will be enabled again. To disable SELinux permanently, edit /etc/selinux/config and set the following value:
SELINUX=disabled

If you have enabled your firewall (the iptables service), and you want to enable external connectivity to your DB2 server, you must open up ports 553 and db2 get dbm cfg | grep SVCENAME in your firewall.