Environment: Red Hat or SUSE Linux
Installation Steps:
- On your linux machine, create a new user ‘sybase’
- Switch to this new user, create the database installation directory (e.g. /databases/sybase)
- Create another folder for the installer (e.g. /databases/installation)
- Upload and unzip the installer
$ unzip sqla1201linux3264_advanced.zip - Folder structure after unzip
$ ls -al total 421004 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 25 11:00 . drwxr-xr-x 6 sybase dba 4096 Jan 25 10:59 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 2011 linux-x86-x64 dr-xr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Feb 1 2011 monitor -r--r--r-- 1 root root 387 Feb 1 2011 readme.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 431087213 Jan 25 11:00 sqla1201linux3264_advanced.zip dr-xr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Feb 1 2011 sqlanywhere - Under the ‘Sybase’ user, start the installer
$ ./sqlanywhere/setup - Follow the on-screen instruction
7.1. Press ENTER
7.2. Select the country you are in
7.3. In the terms of license screen, click q to skip, then type Y to agree
7.4. Type 1 for new installation
7.5. Enter license key
7.6. Select the components you’d like to install
7.7. Once everything is selected, type S to continue
7.8. Enter your desired installation directory (the one you created in step 2)
7.9. Finally, confirm and start the installation - After the installation is completed, go to the installation directory, you should see the following files and folders:
$ lsjava readme_de.txt res selinux tix bin32s demo.log lib32 readme_en.txt samonitor.db sun ultralite bin64 deployment lib64 readme_ja.txt samples support uninstall.sh bin64s install_20130125-1107.log mobilink readme_zh.txt scripts vcsagent charsets installed.ini readme relayserver sdk thirdpartylegal
bin32 demo.db
New Database Configuration Steps:
- Under the new ‘sybase’ user, edit .bash_profile
$ vim ~/.bash_profile add the following lines: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/databases/sybase/SQLAnywhere/12.01/lib64 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH export LANG=en_US.utf8 - Logout from Sybase user and log in again to apply new profile
- Check that the new environment variables are added
$ env | grep LANG LANG=en_US.utf8 $ env | grep LD LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/databases/sybase/SQLAnywhere/12.01/lib64 - In your SQL Anywhere installation directory, create a new folder for your new database
$ mkdir <database_name> - Create temp folder in database directory
$ cd <dir_from_step_4> $ mkdir tmp - Source SQLAnywhere environment
$ source <installation_dir>/bin64/sa_config.sh - Learn dbinit options
$ </installation_dir><installation_dir>/bin64/dbinit -h - Go to your new database folder, create startup script
$ vim init.conf copy and paste the following lines: -p 8192 -ze utf8 -dba <admin_username>,<password> -dbs 2G -o <dir_from_step_4>/output_msg.trc -t </dir_from_step_4><dir_from_step_4>/transaction.log -m </dir_from_step_4><dir_from_step_4>/transaction_mirror.log </dir_from_step_4><dir_from_step_4>/data.db - Initialize new database
$ <installation_dir>/bin64/dbinit @<dir_from_step_4>/init.conf - Learn dbsrv12 options
$ <installation_dir>/bin64/dbsrv12 -h - Create new database configuration parameters file
$ vim <dir_from_step_4>/db.conf copy and paste the following lines: -ud -n <new_db_name> -x "tcpip (PORT=65000)" -gm 64 -c 128M -ch 512M -dt <dir_from_step_5> -gn 10 -o <dir_from_step_4>/sysa12d01.trc -os 10M -ze -zl -zp -zt -cs </dir_from_step_4><dir_from_step_4>/data.db - Start db server
$ <installation_dir>/bin64/dbsrv12 @<dir_from_step_4>/db.conf & - Stop db server
$ <installation_dir>/bin64/dbstop –y –c “eng=<new_db_name>;uid=<admin_username>;pwd=<password>”