Hi

I was trying to install Sybase 15.0.2 64bit on RHEL5. I know the GUI
does not work. I tried following the instructions in another posting
labeled.

"Sybase's official recommendation regarding ASE-15 on RHEL-5 leads to
system crash "

But I eventually reached an RPM dependency on the X11 libraries. Where
the X11 library had a dependency on another library. I could not find
that library anywhere. Sorry but I have the name of the library from
where I'm writing this.

Just wondering if amyone out there actually got it to work?

Just my general gripe because I'm going to give up on Sybase on
Linux. It's not like I'm trying to install Sybase on some obscure
Linux distrubition. It's not working on RedHat. If it's such a pain to
install, why would I try it in a production environment?

No wonder my DBA refuses to move the Sybase servers off of Solaris. ;-)

On Jan 14, 6:02*pm, Wayne Happ <wayneh... (AT) earthlink (DOT) net> wrote:
I've installed ASE on linux umpteen times - there are some
dependencies, but it's usually pretty straightforward.

Once you've unpacked the distribution, try running the dataserver
binary and see what it is missing, and repost here (or in
sybase.public.ase.linux)

Michael

On Jan 14, 9:02 am, Wayne Happ <wayneh... (AT) earthlink (DOT) net> wrote:
There's a poorly documented feature --

The environment variable "LD_POINTER_GUARD" should be set to 0.

Try setting that before you run anything. If that proves successful,
manually edit your "RUN_{server}" scripts to set that before they run
the programs.


Linux suffers from having a Tower of Babel's worth of differing
flavors. Redhat is a major distribution, but a lot of people are
switching to Linuces that don't cost anything to keep maintained.
Linux is already a small fraction of the market, so then we're
talking about a fraction of a fraction, no matter which flavor
you happen to pick.

Redhat is just a major player in the minor leagues.

Solaris is, well, it's just Solaris. You *KNOW* that everything
you're going to need is THERE. For a one-time installation, you
measure the cost of a slam-dunk, Bang, it's DONE on expensive
hardware (Solaris/Sparc) against several hours of Google research
to get it working on cheap hardware (Linux/I86). If your time is
worth anything, the hardware might not be *that* expensive.

Of course, once you've got it working and you need to duplicate
that effort over a network of dozens of machines, Linux can still
be cheaper. But I can well understand how someone would rather go
with the sure-thing solution, even if it works out to a little
more money.

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