Installation/Update with the Red Hat Package Manager 

Use

You are installing or updating all components of the SAP DB Software on the Linux operating system.
If you only want to install or update individual components, you must consider the dependencies between SAP DB components to ensure that the software installation can function. For more information, see the SAP DB Installation Guide.

If you already have a SAP DB installation on your host that was installed using the Red Hat Package Manager (rpm package), you can only perform additional installations or updates using this program.
It is no longer possible to perform additional installations or updates using the SDBINST program (installation with a tgz package).

Prerequisites

·        You are in a root shell.

·        The rpm packages to be installed are accessible.

Procedure

Installing the SAP DB Software for the First Time

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

       2.      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.

Updating the SAP DB Software

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

Stop the program V Server. Note that by doing so, you interrupt the communication of clients to all local database instances.

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       1.      Stop all SAP DB instances that are assigned to the installation directory to be updated with the command:
dbmcli –d <database_name> -u <dbm_user>,<password> db_offline

       2.      Stop the program V Server (service XServer) with the command:
x_server stop

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

Result

The new version of the selected installation profile of the SAP DB software is now installed and registered on your host.

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)