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Installing WAS 5.1 on Linux

Wow…  I had to install WAS 5.1 on linux SuSE 9.3 the other day and found out that it was not the easiest thing in the world.  I started by just using the installer…

/home/co_software/was/WAS51/linuxi386/> ./install

Searching of suitable JVM
……………..

And that’s it it stoped there without any more information.  After some research on google I found a site that recommeded to change the jvm in the WAS51 – jdk directory.  That seemed to work until it actually stated to install and failed almost immediatly and then asked me to register .  Of course nothing had installed and I was getting.

A third try was to “export LANG=en_US”, which actually allowed me to install the entire package but something was still wrong as the EJB tests in the ivtApp failed!!!

By this time as you can imagine I am getting fairly upset and ready to kick computers and anyone in my way… (I’m not really that violent).  In any case I did a lot more research and finally I case across a webpage on the IBM site (thanks google), in the “tivoli” pages if you can imagine. that explained how to install WAS 5.1 on Linux SuSE 9.3….  The trick is actually to do the “export LANG-=en_US” and also to change the ulimit for the stack from unlimited to 8196!!! so “ulimit -s 8196”.  No need to change the JVMs and jump thru any other hoops…

So here is the abbreviated WebSphere 5.1 install procedure in 5 easy steps for SLES 9.

1. export LANG=en_US;
2. ulimit -s 8196;
3. cd to the install directory of CD;
4. ./install, and;
5. Answer all the questions and there you go WAS on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9

Note: that the ulimit and the LANG are also required for the fixpack installs and the CFs as well!

The end!