toby's Journal: installing Ingres 2006 Community Edition RDBMS on Gentoo

Some notes.

1. if it's not installed,

emerge rpm

2. download archive and extract RPMs

3. Install license. Workaround for bad 'tail' syntax in the license RPM

alias tail="tail -n"
./ingres-LICENSE

(For a different workaround, see this page.)

4. Install other rpms

rpm -i --nodeps ingres2006-9.0.4-104.i386.rpm ingres2006-dbms-9.0.4-104.i386.rpm

5. Fix env variables at login for ingres user

su - ingres
echo '. .ingIIbash' >>.bash_profile

6. As ingres user, manually do some steps that didn't work during the RPM installs:

. .ingIIbash
iisutm # "install terminal monitor utility files"
iisudbms -rpm # "setup Ingres 2006 intelligent DBMS"
iisuc2 -rpm # "setup Ingres 2006 C2 security auditing"
ingstart

7. ...And that's when I discovered my threads lib wasn't compatible :) To set up NPTL threads on Gentoo, add nptl to your /etc/make.profile USE flags. (And nptlonly if you don't want linuxthreads.) Then:

emerge glibc

You can check what threading support is already installed: Run

/lib/libc.so.6