DB2 Students Group

Some users are getting the following error when installing DB2 Express-C in Ubuntu 7.10

ERROR:
The required library file libstdc++.so.5 is not found on the system.
ERROR:
The required library file libaio.so.1 is not found on the system.
Check the following web site for the up-to-date system requirements
of IBM DB2 9.5

http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/udb/sysreqs.html

http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/linux/validate

/home/antonio/Desktop/exp/db2/linux/install/../bin/db2usrinf:
error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[: 609: 0: unexpected operator
/home/antonio/Desktop/exp/db2/linux/install/../bin/db2langdir:
error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/antonio/Desktop/exp/db2/linux/install/../bin/db2langdir:
error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
DBI1055E The message file db2install.cat cannot be found.

Explanation: The message file required by this
script is missing from the system; it may have been
deleted or the database products may have been loaded
incorrectly.

User Response: Verify that the product option containing
the message file is installed correctly. If there are
verification errors; reinstall the product option.

To fix this you only need to get libstdc++5.
Just put this 3 lines in your console and your ready to go.

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
sudo apt-get install libaio-dev
sudo ./db2setup

If you usually read Simão’s Blog you probably already saw this guide.

For all of you that didn’t but wish to install DB2 on Linux just follow this link.