installing odb 1.41 on SUSE linux

[Paul Mulroney]

Hi John,

On 18/05/2012, at 12:00 AM, omnisdev-en-request at lists.omnis-dev.com wrote:

> I'm setting up a new openSUSE server and am trying to install odb to no avail. I downloaded the files
> 
> Omnis-DataBridge-1.41-1.i386.rpm
> obd.taz
> odb.rpm
> 
> but do not know how to use them to install the odb. I set up this server 2 years ago but forgot how to do it.  The hard drive failed on the server so I'm reinstalling with the latest SUSE so any guidance will be truly appreciated. I tried looking at the archives and the internet in general but did not find how to proceed. 


The ".rpm" file is a 'Red-hat Package Manager' file.  If you have the RPM system installed on SUSE, then you can do the following from the command prompt as the root user:

rpm -i Omnis-DataBridge-1.41-1.i386.rpm

If RPM isn't part of the SUSE setup, then you can use the ".taz" file instead.  This is a compressed archive of the software, so you can use something like this from the command prompt to uncompress it:

tar -xvf obd.taz

There should be a script in there to setup the paths etc.  I can't remember the name exactly, I think it's something like "odbset", you run it from the command prompt:

./odbset

Finally, to start the databridge, you do the following from the command prompt:

./odbI386 start

This is all a manual process.  I wrote some scripts for Fedora to handle automatic startup and shutdown, but I don't know if they'll work for you.  If you need further help, please let me know.

Good luck!

Regards,
Paul.



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