Month: July 2013

Installing Portal Express 8 Trial on RedHat Enterprise Linux

Download the following packages from the Trial download IBM site Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install1of6.zip Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install2of6.zipPortal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install3of6.zipPortal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install4of6.zipPortal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install5of6.zipPortal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install6of6.zipPortal_Express_V8.0_Trial_Setup1of2.zipPortal_Express_V8.0_Trial_Setup2of2.zipPortal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_1of3.zipPortal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_2of3.zipPortal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_3of3.zip Create a directory under /tmp cd /tmpmkdir WPScd WPS Unzip all the files using the following commands (assuming all of these exist under /tmp) unzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install1of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install2of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install3of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install4of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install5of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install6of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_V8.0_Trial_Setup1of2.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_V8.0_Trial_Setup2of2.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_1of3.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_2of3.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_3of3.zip Ensure you have Firefox installed. If not install …

Adding CentOS 6 to RedHat 6

First you need to add the CentOS repository, create this file using your favorite text editor: [root@localhost ~]# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/centos.repo Adding the following contents, note the ’5′ has to be hardcoded to either 5 or 6 depending on your RHEL version. [centos]name=CentOS $releasever – $basearchbaseurl=http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/centos/5/os/$basearch/enabled=1gpgcheck=0 Once you’ve completed this step, you can now use “yum” …