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chupy35

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Registered: 2009-10-04

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Informix on archlinux

I need to use Informix on my university and the teacher told me i can only use Informix in a aproved Linux Distribution.

Is there a way i can install it on archlinux and how can i do it.

HalosGhost

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Re: Informix on archlinux

Sure, package it.

All the best,

-HG

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jakobcreutzfeldt

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Re: Informix on archlinux

To add to HalosGhost's vague answer, creating packages is pretty straight-forward and well-documented in the wiki. If this is proprietary software distributed as a binary, you might run into dependency issues if it depends on old versions of libraries. The only way to find out is to just give it a try, investigate problems, attempt to fix them, try again, and repeat until it works (hopefully it'll work on the first try).

You do not strictly need to create a package for it; you could instead just install it directly to /usr/local. The advantage of making a package for it is that you can then use pacman to track all of the files, making updating and removing painfree.

Good luck.

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chupy35

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Re: Informix on archlinux

i will try it but it only comes in RPM and DEB

Scimmia

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Re: Informix on archlinux

It's actually pretty simple to make PKGBUILDs with RPM or DEB files. There are plenty of examples in the AUR. I've found the simplest to be to use the DEB then just use

bsdtar -xf data.tar.gz -C "$pkgdir"

in the package function. The more complex part is the dependencies and anything in the pre/post install script.