Installing on Linux Ubuntu or Linux on POWER Systems - Little Endian

You can install an IBM® MQ server on a Linux® Ubuntu system, or Linux on POWER® Systems - Little Endian system, in accordance with the system requirements web page.

Before you begin

See System Requirements for IBM MQ V8.0 for details of the supported software levels.

Before you start the installation procedure, make sure that you have completed the necessary steps outlined in Preparing the system.
If you install a copy of IBM MQ server for Linux Ubuntu using Electronic Software Download, obtained from Passport Advantage®, you need to uncompress the tar.gz file, and extract the installation files from the tar file, by using the following command:
```
  tar -xvf   WS_MQ_V8.0_TRIAL_FOR_Linux Ubuntu_ML.tar
```
Important: You must use GNU tar (also known as gtar) to unpack any tar images.
Ensure that RPM is installed on your system, as RPM is not installed by default on this platform.
To determine if the correct RPM package is installed on you system, see Checking the availability of RPM on your Linux Ubuntu machine.
Once RPM is installed on your system, carry out the following procedure, as root:
1. Create directory /etc/rpm
2. Add file etc/rpm/macros, containing the following lines:
```
%_dbpath /var/lib/rpm
%_build_id_links none
```
Attention: You should only set up a /macros file if you are not already using RPM, as the previous instruction changes the default system-wide RPM database.

About this task

Install the server by using the RPM Package Manager installer to select the components that you want to install. The components and package names are listed in Choosing what to install.

Procedure

Open a shell terminal and set your current directory to the location of the installation packages. The location might be the mount point of the server DVD, a network location, or a local file system directory. You must have root authority to run the following commands. You can do so by adding sudo before the following commands, or by changing to the root user in the shell with the su command.
Run the mqlicense.sh script.
If you want to view a text-only version of the license, which can be read by a screen reader, type the following message:
```
./mqlicense.sh -text_only
```
The license is displayed.
You must accept the license agreement before you can proceed with the installation.
If this installation is not the first installation of IBM MQ on the system, you must run the crtmqpkg command to create a unique set of packages to install on the system.
For the crtmqpkg command to run on Linux, you must install the pax command and rpmbuild, which is located in the rpm package.
1. Enter the following command:
```
./crtmqpkg suffix
```
  where suffix is a name of your choosing, that uniquely identifies the installation packages on the system. suffix is not the same as an installation name, although the names can be identical. suffix is limited to 16 characters in the ranges A-Z, a-z, and 0-9.
  Note: This command creates a full copy of the installation packages in a temporary directory. By default, the temporary directory is located at /var/tmp. You must ensure that the system has enough free space before you run this command. To use a different location, you can set the TMPDIR environment variable before you run the crtmqpkg command. For example:
```
TMPDIR=/test ./crtmqpkg
```
2. Set your current directory to the location specified when the crtmqpkg command completes.
  This directory is a subdirectory of the /var/tmp/mq_rpms directory, in which the unique set of packages is created. The packages have the suffix value contained within the file name. In the following example, the suffix of "1" ./crtmqpkg 1 means that there is a subdirectory named /var/tmp/mq_rpms/1/i386.
  The packages are renamed according to the subdirectory, for example, on Linux for System x (64-bit):
```
From: MQSeriesRuntime-8.0.0-0.x86_64.rpm
To: MQSeriesRuntime_1-8.0.0-0.x86_64.rpm
```

Install IBM MQ.

At a minimum, you must install the MQSeries®Runtime and the MQSeriesServer components.

An additional flag is required when installing on Linux on POWER Systems - Little Endian

--ignorearch: You must include this option to prevent problems with some levels of rpm not recognizing the Linux on POWER Systems - Little Endian architecture

An additional flag is required when installing on Linux Ubuntu:

--force-debian: You must include this option to prevent warning messages from the version of RPM for your platform, which indicates that the RPM packages are not intended to be directly installed using RPM.

To install the IBM MQ Explorer on Linux Ubuntu (x86-64 only):

Install all the components that you want, except for the IBM MQ Explorer component.
Install the IBM MQ Explorer component with the --nodeps flag. If you do not include the --nodeps flag, the installation fails with a dependency error. The dependency error occurs because the GTK2 packages are not installed by RPM and therefore cannot be found as package dependencies.

If you are installing a subset of components, you must ensure that any dependencies are first installed, as listed in Table 1.

Note the following:

To install to the default location, /opt/mqm, use the rpm -ivh command to install each component that you require.
To install the runtime and server components to the default location on Ubuntu Linux for System x (64-bit), use the following command:
```
rpm -ivh --force-debian MQSeriesRuntime-*.rpm MQSeriesServer-*.rpm
```
To install the runtime and server components to the default location on Linux on POWER Systems - Little Endian , use the following command:
```
rpm -ivh --force-debian --ignorearch MQSeriesRuntime-*.rpm MQSeriesServer-*.rpm
```
To install all components to the default location on Linux on POWER Systems - Little Endian use the following command:
```
rpm -ivh --force-debian --ignorearch MQSeries*.rpm
```
To install to a nondefault location, use the rpm --prefix option. For each installation, all of the IBM MQ components that you require must be installed in the same location.
The installation path specified must be, either an empty directory, the root of an unused file system, or a path that does not exist.
Attention: The length of the path is limited to 256 bytes and must not contain spaces.
For example, enter the following installation path to install the runtime and server components to the /opt/customLocation directory on Linux on POWER Systems - Little Endian :
```
rpm --prefix /opt/customLocation -ivh --force-debian --ignorearch
MQSeriesRuntime-*.rpm MQSeriesServer-*.rpm
```

Table 1 lists all available packages on Ubuntu, together with all the associated dependencies.

To install and use the package listed in the Package Name column, you must also install the components listed in the Package Dependencies column.

Table 1. Package component dependencies
Package Name	Component Function	Dependencies
MQSeriesRuntime	Common function for all other components	None
MQSeriesServer	Queue Manager	MQSeriesRuntime
MQSeriesClient	C IBM MQ client libraries	MQSeriesRuntime
MQSeriesJava	Java and JMS IBM MQ APIs	MQSeriesRuntime
MQSeriesJRE	Java Runtime Environment	MQSeriesRuntime
MQSeriesExplorer	IBM MQ Explorer IBM MQ Explorer is only available on Linux for System x (64-bit). Note: There is no IBM support for this component on Ubuntu , unless you are running on Ubuntu Version 14.04 (or later) and have installed IBM MQ 8.0.0.2 (or later).	MQSeriesRuntime MQSeriesJRE GTK2 version 2.2.4-0 or later, including the GTK2 engines that contain the GTK2 themes Bitstream-vera-fonts
MQSeriesGSKit	IBM Global Security Kit Note: There is no IBM support for this component on Ubuntu , unless you are running on Ubuntu Version 14.04 (or later) and have installed IBM MQ 8.0.0.2 (or later).	MQSeriesRuntime MQSeriesJRE
MQSeriesSDK	Header files and libraries for non-Java APIs	MQSeriesRuntime
MQSeriesMan	UNIX man pages for IBM MQ	MQSeriesRuntime
MQSeriesSamples	IBM MQ application samples	MQSeriesRuntime
MQSeriesMsg_cs MQSeriesMsg_de MQSeriesMsg_es MQSeriesMsg_fr MQSeriesMsg_hu MQSeriesMsg_it MQSeriesMsg_ja MQSeriesMsg_ko MQSeriesMsg_pl MQSeriesMsg_pt MQSeriesMsg_ru MQSeriesMsg_Zh_CN MQSeriesMsg_Zh_TW	Language specific message catalog files	MQSeriesRuntime
MQSeriesFTBase	IBM MQ Managed File Transfer component	MQSeriesRuntime MQSeriesJava MQSeriesJRE
MQSeriesFTLogger	IBM MQ Managed File Transfer component	MQSeriesRuntime MQSeriesServer MQSeriesFTBase MQSeriesJava MQSeriesJRE
MQSeriesFTTools MQSeriesFTAgent	IBM MQ Managed File Transfer components	MQSeriesRuntime MQSeriesFTBase MQSeriesJava MQSeriesJRE
MQSeriesFTService	IBM MQ Managed File Transfer component	MQSeriesRuntime MQSeriesServer MQSeriesFTAgent MQSeriesFTBase MQSeriesJava MQSeriesJRE
MQSeriesAMS	Advanced Message Security component Note: There is no IBM support for this component on Ubuntu , unless you are running on Ubuntu Version 14.04 (or later) and have installed IBM MQ 8.0.0.2 (or later).	MQSeriesRuntime MQSeriesServer

Results

You have installed the packages you require.

What to do next

If you have chosen this installation to be the primary installation on the system, you must now set it as the primary installation. Enter the following command at the command prompt:
```
 MQ_INSTALLATION_PATH/bin/setmqinst -i -p MQ_INSTALLATION_PATH
```
where MQ_INSTALLATION_PATH represents the directory where IBM MQ is installed.

You can have only one primary installation on a system. If there is already a primary installation on the system, you must unset it before you can set another installation as the primary installation. For more information, see Changing the primary installation.
You might want to set up the environment to work with this installation. You can use the setmqenv or crtmqenv command to set various environment variables for a particular installation of IBM MQ . For more information, see setmqenv and crtmqenv.
If you want to confirm that the installation was successful, you can verify your installation. See Verifying a server installation, for more information.