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Preparing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for installation
You must complete additional steps to prepare a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 7 system for a WebSphere® Application Server installation.
Before you begin
Complete all steps in Preparing Linux systems for installation. Those steps are common to installing WebSphere Application Server on any Linux system.
About this task
After you complete the common steps that are required to install any Linux system, you must also complete extra system-specific steps that are required for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 7.
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.
Procedure
Results
If you do not install all of the required packages, the installation does not complete correctly. Error messages indicate missing libraries, the inability to load graphical interfaces, or other errors that occur during the installation.