You must complete additional steps to prepare a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Version 5
system for a WebSphere® Application
Server installation.
About this task
In addition to the common steps required for installing
any Linux system, a few system
specific steps are required for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 5.
Verify that the prerequisite
packages are installed. A Linux package
registration limitation prevents the prerequisites checker program
from examining prerequisite packages on Linux systems.
See Installing and verifying Linux packages for more information.
You should consider
the following points if you have enabled Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) on your Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Version 5
operating system.
Procedure
- Install packages for all hardware platforms.
Install
the following packages on any hardware platform:
- compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61
- Required for C++ runtime compatibility. Used by such components
as GSKit, the Java 2 Software
Development Kit (SDK), and the Web Server Plug-ins.
- compat-db-4.2.52-5.1
- Required by IBM® HTTP Server
Some of the modules use the libraries contained within this package.
- gtk2-2.10.4-29.el5
- Required by the IBM WebSphere Installation Factory
and the IBM Installation Manager
- gtk2-engines-2.8.0-3.el5
- Required by the IBM WebSphere Installation Factory
and the IBM Installation Manager
- ksh-20080202-14
- Required by IBM HTTP Server.
- libXp-1.0.0-8
- Required by the Java 2 SDK
to provide printing functions for graphical user interfaces. Without
this package, Swing-based applications and AWT-based applications,
such as InstallShield for Multiplatforms (ISMP), cannot instantiate.
- libXmu-1.0.2-5
- libXtst-1.0.1-3.1
- pam-0.99.6.2-3.26.el5
- elfutils-0.125-3.el5
- elfutils-libs-0.125-3.el5
- libXft-2.1.10-1.1
- Required to install the application server using a user interface.
- libstdc++-4.1.2-48
These packages are part of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system, but might
not installed by default. You can also install a later release of
any of these packages if Red Hat provides new packages as errata.
- Select packages for hardware platforms that are capable
of running both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.
Hardware
platforms capable of running both 32-bit and 64-bit applications include
Opteron, EM64T, IBM i, pSeries® (PowerPC®), and zSeries® (64-bit) machines.
By default,
RHEL 5 only installs 64-bit runtime support on these platforms. However,
various applications included with WebSphere Application
Server Version 8.x products and packages also require the 32-bit runtime
support. Therefore, you must install the 32-bit runtime support.
Install
the following required 32-bit packages by selecting to customize the
packages during the RHEL 5 installation. Or, customize packages on
an existing RHEL 5 system by issuing the system-config-packages command
from a graphical terminal.
Install the Compatibility Architecture
Support under the System category. Optionally install the Compatibility
Architecture Development Support under the Development category if
you intend to build C or C++ libraries for use with both 32-bit and
64-bit applications.
Platforms that support both 32-bit and
64-bit applications require both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of
the following packages:
- compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61
- compat-db-4.2.52-5.1
- gtk2-2.18.9-4
- gtk2-engines-2.18.4-5
- libstdc++-4.1.2-48
- libXft-2.1.10-1.1
- libXp-1.0.0-8
- libXmu-1.0.2-5
- libXtst-1.0.1-3.1
- pam-0.99.6.2-3.26.el5
Run the rpm -qa | grep package_name command
to verify that you have both versions of each package. Substitute
the name of each package for the package_name variable.
Installed
packages are displayed in the reply to the command. If you do not
get two replies for each package, you have only one version of the
package installed. You must then install the missing package.
- Install additional packages for specific platforms.
In addition to the packages that are common to all platforms,
install the following packages on hardware platforms capable of running
both 32-bit and 64-bit applications before installing WebSphere Application Server products and
packages.
- x86 platforms and Opteron or EM64T platforms: compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138
- The compat-libstdc++ package is required for C++ runtime compatibility.
The package is used by such components as GSKit, the Java 2 SDK, and the Web Server Plug-ins.
- z/Series platforms: compat-libstdc++-295-2.95.3-85
- The compat-libstdc++ package is required for C++ runtime compatibility.
The package is used by such components as GSKit, the Java 2 SDK, and the Web Server Plug-ins.
Install
both the 32-bit version and the 64-bit version of the package on 64-bit
z/Series hardware platforms.
Results
If you do not install all of the required packages, the
installation will not perform as intended. Error messages indicate
missing libraries, the inability to load graphical interfaces, or
other errors that occur during the installation.
What to do next
After you complete the steps in this article, proceed
to "What to do next" in Preparing Linux systems for installation.