Installing/Updating Under UNIX 
Use
You
use the SDBINST program on the UNIX operating system to install or update a
chosen 
installation
profile of the SAP DB software. All necessary information is queried by
the program during the installation.
Before updating the database software, you must stop the program V Server. Note that by doing so, you interrupt the communication of clients to all local database instances.
The installation process is logged by the system.
Conventions
Prerequisites
· You are in a root shell.
· You have downloaded and unpacked the installation package (Downloading and Unpacking the Database Software Under UNIX).
Preparations
If the following conditions apply to your system, you must perform the specified steps before a new installation:
·
The
installation program enters the required services
sql6,
sql30 and sapdb ni 72 in the file
/etc/services
if they do not already exist there. If these services are managed centrally
for your system on the network (NIS), you must enter them there as
follows.
7210/tcp
sql30
7200/tcp
sapdb ni 72 7269/tcp
· For the installation, you must specify the group sapsys and the owner sapdb of the SAP DB software. If these settings are managed centrally in the network, you must create them there.
· If the path <independent_program_path>/bin is not yet entered in your environment variable PATH, enter it now.
Procedure
...
1. If you want to update an existing SAP DB installation
¡
Stop every
SAP DB database instance that is assigned to the installation directory to be
updated with the command:
dbmcli –d
<database_name> -u <dbm_user>,<password>
db_offline
¡
Stop the
program V Server (service
XServer) with
the command:
x_server stop
For a new installation, begin with step 2.
2.
Switch to the
directory
sapdb-<inst_profile>-<os>-64bit-<arch>-<version>_<build>,
which contains the
installation software for the chosen installation
profile.
Enter /SDBINST, to start the
installation/update program.
3.
The system
proposes the installation profile that you selected for the installation.
If the selected installation profile (such as all)
contains other installation profiles, you can now select one of these
installation profiles. To do this, specify the relevant ID. Confirm your
selection.
4. The system prompts you to specify the group <group> and the owner <owner> of the SAP DB database software.
The default values of the system are:
¡
Installation outside of an SAP
system:
for <group> sapsys and for <owner> sapdb
If the group
sapsys and the owner sapdb have not yet been created, the
system asks whether you want to create them. Enter the desired values or
confirm the system default values.
¡
Update
outside of an SAP system: the values chosen in the previous
installation/update
Update in an SAP system
For SAP DB OLTP database instances for <group> sapsys and for <owner> sqdsid
For liveCache database instances for <group> sapsys and for <owner> sidadm.
5. The system now checks whether there are SAP DB installations that can be updated on your host.
If this is the case, all existing installations are listed.
¡
If you want
to update an existing installation, enter its ID.
The system then updates the software that is stored under the <independent_data_path> and the <independent_program_path>. Depending on the selected
profile, the software under the <dependent_path> is updated if the
installation package contains newer versions of the files in the
directory.
¡ If you want to install new database software in parallel with an existing installation, enter none. You then have the option of specifying a new installation path. Define an installation path in parallel with the existing installation path.
If there are no SAP DB installations on your host, the SAP DB components contained in the installation profile are now installed. Depending on the installation profile that you have chosen, the system may prompt you to specify the following paths:
¡ Path for storing the data, configuration, and run directories of SAP DB database instances and SAP DB applications (the system default value is /var/opt/sapdb/indep_data)
¡ Path for storing the programs and libraries shared by the SAP DB database instances and SAP DB applications (the system default value is /opt/sapdb/indep_prog)
Enter the desired paths or confirm the system default values.
6. If there were no SAP DB installations on your host until now, add the following entry to the PATH environment variable for all users that are to use SAP DB: <independent_program_path>/bin.
You see a success message about the installation.
Result
The new version of the selected installation profile of the SAP DB software is now installed and registered on your host. You can use the log to check that the installation ran correctly (Logging Under UNIX).
You can now create new database instances using the Database Manager
(See:
·
Creating a Database
Instance in the Database Manager CLI: SAP DB 7.4
documentation
·
The Web DBM
documentation)