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.

A new version of DB2 Express-C was made available by IBM today. As you might already know DB2 Express-C is a free dataserver without any limits on database size or number of users.

We got this news from Antonio Cangiano, a IBM Engineer that likes DB2 and Ruby on Rails. Seems like a nice guy!

So you won’t find this new version on IBM DB2 Express-C Website, but you can download the Linux Version here and the Windows Version here. Mac version is still not available. This is probably the down side as many of us are waiting for IBM to ship a Express-C DB2 version for Macintosh. Hopefully next time?

We still didn’t tested the new DB2 but according to Antonio

Version 9.5 brings to the table a great deal of new enhancements and features. Among these there is also the reduced amount of memory requirements and the improved efficiency of operations on Linux. Oh and it will also make you rich and more beautiful. I mean, pureXML support has been greatly improved and it is a release that is sure to please many people on both Windows and Linux.

About the T-Shirt, we know it’s great. Hopefully Vítor will send us some few.