Re: Impressions of EGL - Part Duex

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
> I have had trouble with iSeries Access 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 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.

Nathan.