Re: Summary: IBM DB2 installation on Woody
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:31:49AM +0200, Holger Marzen wrote:
> > install rpm
> > - apt-get install rpm
> > - mkdir /var/lib/rpm
> > - rpm --initdb
>
> Oof! Isn't it possible to use alien rather than trying to hack rpm to
> install RPM packages on Debian (which is usually dangerous)?
DB2 is installed using an IBM-supplied installer, called db2setup. This
installer runs rpm, so it's much simpler to use db2setup than figuring
out which rpm package is what component.
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