Installing Cognos 8.4 on SUSE Linux

[chrismgarvey]

Hi All,

I am comfortable installing Cognos on Windows platform, however I am currently trying to install Cognos 8.4 onto Linux.

How do I run issetup to start the installation?

Via XTERM:

- Naviagate to directory
- type 'issetup'
- Error - 'error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

Via Dolphin:

- Double click on issetup, prompts what application to open with...

Many thanks.
Chris

[chrismgarvey]

Resolved this error, by manually creating the directories and assigning correct privilages before starting issetup.

Chris

[cjpaisley]

Hi Chris,

Now yu have a total newbie in Linux getting the same problem and quite lost when yu said "by manually creating the directories and assigning correct privilages"...

Where i am lost is:
First, which directories do i need to create and where to create them,
then which privileges are needed coz before i got that error i was getting an access denied error, then ran d "chmod -R 777" command. after that thats when i started getting the "libXm.so.3" error.

also sm1 was suggesting to run a silent installation, but i thot that needs sm1 to have installed it 1st so i copy the ATS file, so no longer sure..

so can yu pliz help and try to be detailed as possible..

Many thanks,
Cjpaisley

[adrian.rutter]

Having recently deployed 8.4.1 into SUSE Linux 11, when I came upon the libXm error this was because the Mosaic libraries had not been installed in SUSE. Once these were installed the libXm error went away.
PS       I would never recommend using chmod 777 unless instructed by the software vendor, but even then I would question them why... It is a security nightmare for penetration testing.

[cognostechie]

Correct. 777 is assigining all privileges but why you guys posting this in the wrong forum ? This post belongs to the Cognos Admin forum.