{"id":528,"date":"2016-03-08T22:25:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2016-03-08T22:25:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:55:41","slug":"ibm-installation-manager-installation-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/08\/ibm-installation-manager-installation-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Installation Manager Installation fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM Installation Manager Installation fails on Red hat linux operating system and says libraries are missing.<\/p>\n<p>IBM Support Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www-01.ibm.com\/support\/docview.wss?uid=swg21459143\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www-01.ibm.com\/support\/docview.wss?uid=swg21459143 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please follow the resolution given in above link. We need Mount the CD ROM AS IS to make all the libraries available for package updates.<\/p>\n<p>1. Mount the DVD to the system. Insert the DVD into the DVD drive. If you are using any VM or ESX host image, the iso file will already be there mounted as shown in below screenshot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-529 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/iim1.png\" alt=\"IBM Installation Manager Installation fails\" width=\"311\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/iim1.png 311w, http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/iim1-300x62.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Select open a terminal window as a root.<\/p>\n<p>3. Execute the commands:<\/p>\n<p>[root@localhost]# mkdir \/mnt\/cdrom<br \/>\n[root@localhost]# mount -o ro \/dev\/cdrom \/mnt\/cdrom<br \/>\n4. Create the text file server.repo in the \/etc\/yum.repos.d directory.<br \/>\nNote: To use gedit, execute the command:<\/p>\n<p>[root@localhost]# gedit \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/server.repo<\/p>\n<p>Add the following text to the file:<\/p>\n<p>[server]<br \/>\nname=server<br \/>\nbaseurl=file:\/\/\/mnt\/cdrom\/Workstation<br \/>\nenabled=1<\/p>\n<p>where baseurl depends on the mounting point and the RHEL distribution.<\/p>\n<p>5. Execute the command:<\/p>\n<p>[root@localhost]# yum clean all<\/p>\n<p>6. Execute the command to import related public keys:<\/p>\n<p>[root@localhost]# rpm &#8211;import \/mnt\/cdrom\/*GPG*<\/p>\n<p>7. Execute the commands to install the required libraries:<\/p>\n<p>[root@localhost]# yum install gtk2.i686<br \/>\n[root@localhost]# yum install libXtst.i686<\/p>\n<p>If you received the missing libstdc++ message above, install the libstdc++ library:<\/p>\n<p>[root@localhost]# yum install compat-libstdc++<\/p>\n<p>During the install you might receive prompts similar to the example. Answer with &#8216;y&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Example:<br \/>\nTotal download size: 15 M<br \/>\nInstalled size: 47 M<br \/>\nIs this ok [y\/N]: y<\/p>\n<p>The package name extension (.i686) might change in the command depending on the hardware platform that you use. The table lists valid values for the package name extension. Also note that for 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux hardware platforms: x86_64, ppc_86_64 and s390_64, you need both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the compat-libstdc++ package installed.<\/p>\n<p>Above content and commands are taken out from IBM support portal technote and I had to follow same steps AS IS to make IBM Installation manager working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM Installation Manager Installation fails on Red hat linux operating system and says libraries are missing. IBM Support Link: http:\/\/www-01.ibm.com\/support\/docview.wss?uid=swg21459143 Please follow the resolution given in above link. We need Mount the CD ROM AS IS to make all the libraries available for package updates. 1. Mount the DVD to the system. Insert the DVD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ibm-installation-manager","tag-ibm-installation-manager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}