Installing Websphere 6.1 and Sp24?

[Kieran]

Hi all

I am trying to install Websphere 6.1 on AIX 5.3 but the installer won't run. When I run ./launchpad.sh a get a error that there is no supported web browser. We have tried to run this through an Xwindows session and I can run other apps (xclock) but not the Websphere install program. Do we have to get Xwindows to load a browser on the pc where we are running it from?

The JDE manual is unclear and it looks like it has copied and pasted from other manuals, but it mentions nothing about any setup for running launchpad.sh

Has anyone tried installing Websphere 6.1 on AIX? We arent on a new enough relase to run through server manager.

I am using the root user so rights shouldnt be a problem, but I dont know much about Xwindows or AIX.

Thanks
Kieran

AIX 5.3, ERP8.0, Sp24.0.2 (soon hopefully)

 

[swhitmire]

You need to have a web browser actually installed on the AIX machine -- you can download the installp package for Firefox for AIX at http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/browsers/index.html.

Have you read my thread about problems with SP24.0.2?
You'll definitely need to get a replacement jdeuser.dll from Oracle support to avoid instability problems in many applications, and there are problems with PCL printing that they haven't yet come up with a fix for.

 

[Sebastian Sajaroff]

Hi,

You don' have to launch launchpad.sh, you have to use
the install executable found on your CD, in the WAS folder

Ex : /mount/cd/WAS/install

You can also run a silent installation (which I prefer)
so there would be no need of X/Window

install -options<your text options file> -silent

Good luck, WAS installation is not as easy as we'd like.