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.zip
Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install3of6.zip
Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install4of6.zip
Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install5of6.zip
Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install6of6.zip
Portal_Express_V8.0_Trial_Setup1of2.zip
Portal_Express_V8.0_Trial_Setup2of2.zip
Portal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_1of3.zip
Portal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_2of3.zip
Portal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_3of3.zip

Create a directory under /tmp

cd /tmp
mkdir WPS
cd WPS

Unzip all the files using the following commands (assuming all of these exist under /tmp)

unzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install1of6.zip
unzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install2of6.zip
unzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install3of6.zip
unzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install4of6.zip
unzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install5of6.zip
unzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install6of6.zip
unzip /tmp/Portal_Express_V8.0_Trial_Setup1of2.zip
unzip /tmp/Portal_Express_V8.0_Trial_Setup2of2.zip
unzip /tmp/Portal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_1of3.zip
unzip /tmp/Portal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_2of3.zip
unzip /tmp/Portal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_3of3.zip

Ensure you have Firefox installed. If not install Firefox using yum. I was running RHEL without the CentOS repositories. Please see my earlier post on adding the CentOS repos to RHEL. After installing firefox, run the following command.

export BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox

cd /tmp/WPS/Setup

./setup.sh