Installations/Updates with the Red Hat Package Manager 

Use

You are installing or updating 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 can no longer use SDBINST for installations and updates (installation with tgz package).

Prerequisites

·        You are in a root shell.

·        You can access to the rpm packages that you want to install.

Procedure

First Installation of the SAP DB Software

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       1.      Execute the installation command:
rpm -Uhv sapdb*.rpm

       2.      Add the entry <independent_program_path>/bin to the environment variable PATH for each user that wants to use SAP DB.

Updating the SAP DB Software

Stop all existing SAP DB software on the server where you want to update the SAP DB software version.

Stop V Server ( Xserver service). 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

Result

The SAP DB software components in the chosen package have been installed and registered with the 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.)