installation of sap netweaver testdrive on ubuntu ?

[manfred_goergen]

Hello,

has anybody successfully installed the nw4 testdrive on ubuntu breezy?

Kind regards

Manfred

[eddy_declercq]

Hi,

Even if one succeeds installing it on Ubuntu, it'll be not supported by SAP. Accoring to the PAM (see also service.sap.com/nw04)

Suse SLES9, Red HAt EL4, Red Flag on is supported.

Eddy

[eddy_declercq]

Hi,

Pls don't forget to reward points and close the question if you find the answers useful.

Eddy

[gregorw]

Hi Manfred,

because Ubuntu is based on Debian you should have a look on my Article:

<a href="https://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/4b5f23d3-0901-0010-19b6-d2e98d5586fb">Setting up SAP ERP 2004 SR1 IDES on Debian</a>.

Hope it helps.

Regards

Gregor

[Former Member]

Hi,

last week I have successfully installed R3 Enterprise 4.7 (Basis 6.20) on Ubuntu Breezy Badger (Linux kernel 2.6.12) just for test reasons and it works flawlessly.

You just need to cancel he installation before the SAP start and upgrade the SAPkernel to the newest 6.40 and generate standard locale ISO-8859-1, as Breezy Badger comes only with Unicode UTF-8 locales generated.

Regards,

Branislav

[Former Member]

Manfred,

In two weeks' time I will install Ubuntu and try to bring up one of the test drives, I will tell you how it came up.

Best regards,

Ferando

[Former Member]

Hello,

Were you finally successfull? Are you aware of any news of NW running on Ubuntu?

Thanks,

Kind regards.

[g_awater]

I'm running a solution manager installation at home a couple of months ago, using a 64bit Ubuntu installation, in a virtual machine (virtual box), but it took some work, I'll post my log here, hope it helps: (some is shamefully copied from a site, can't remember what site that was. Apart from that, not all steps are neccesary 😞

- install ubuntu

- activate root account: sudo passwd root

- change /etc/hosts:

make sure your /etc/hosts contains lines like those, otherwise visual admin wonu2019t work right (and maybe other things)

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain

192.168.1.212 desktop desktop.mycomp.com

- install various packages needed:

sudo apt-get install pdksh unzip original-awk csh zsh libstdc++5 libperl-dev chkconfig smbfs smbclient

watch out: installing insserv may remove the standard initscripts which might result in an unbootable system.

So note which packages are removed and make sure you reinstall them after installing SAP and before rebooting.

These packages might be: apparmor apparmor-utils initscripts system-services ubuntu-minimal upstart-compat-sysv

- change default shell into bash: sudo ln -s -f /bin/bash /bin/sh

- adjust kernel settings:

vi /etc/sysctl.conf

kernel.shmall = 1879048192

kernel.shmmax = 1879048192

kernel.msgmni = 128

fs.file-max = 8192

then run sysctl -p

vi /etc/security/limits.conf

• hard nofile 32800

• soft nofile 32800

- install ssh to get access with ssh client like putty: apt-get install ssh

- install ftp daemon: apt-get install vsftpd, make these adjustments in /etc/vsftpd.conf:

- anonymous_enable=YES -> NO

- uncomment "local_enable=YES"

- uncomment "write_enable=YES"

- issue command: /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

- install rpm: apt-get install rpm

- We need a 64 Bit JDK, only one to use is IBM JDK for sap:

- use the IBM jvm(64bits) (see note: 1090932 & 861215).

https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?lang=en_US&source=swg-ibmjavaisv

- get it in .tgz format (currently: IBMJava2-SDK-AMD64-1.4.2-12.0.x86_64.tgz (54.7MB) )

- unpack it like this:

mkdir /usr/lib/jvm

tar -xzvf IBMJava2-SDK-AMD64-1.4.2-12.0.x86_64.tgz /usr/lib/jvm/

- as root, put these 2 lines in /etc/profile:

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/IBMJava2-amd64-142

export JAVA_HOME

If you want to connect to a windows share containing the SAP DVD's, do something like this:

- edit /etc/fstab and add a line like this:

//10.0.0.152/D_SAP_DOWNLOADS /tempinstall smbfs auto,credentials=/root/.credentials

- file /root/.credentials has these lines:

username=myusernameontheshare

password=mypasswordontheshare

-chmod 600 /root/.credentials

-mount -a

to run sapinst

xhost +

su -

export DISPLAY=:0.0

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:.

cd <directory containing sapinst>

./sapinst

trouble during install: cannot start instance, permission denied in dev_disp --> es/implementation = std in profile, see also Note 941735

related / needed notes:

note: 1090932 & 861215 (IBM JDK)

note 739043 (secstore)