Re: Installing iSeriesAccess on Ubuntu

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Dan wrote:
> Any chance you have the detailed instructions for what you did
> to get this to work on Ubuntu?

I'm using Ubuntu too (the newest release), and it took some research 
with trial and error to get it working.  After downloading the *.rpm 
package from IBM you'll need to convert it to a *.deb package using 
alien and also install a few other prerequisites.  I think the following 
commands from the terminal (under the accessories menu) will do it:

sudo alien -d -c -k -v iSeriesAccess(your version).rpm
sudo apt-get install iSeriesAccess(your version).deb

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5-3.3-dev
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
sudo apt-get install libmotif3
sudo apt-get install libxaw6
sudo apt-get install unixODBC

See setup5250 in the /opt/ibm/iSeriesAccess/bin/ folder to setup a 
connection and session.

Using a single command (apt-get install) to download and install 
packages off the Internet seemed cool to me.

HTH,

Nathan.