Installing a WebSphere MQ server

Before you start the installation procedure, make sure you have prepared your system as described in Preparing for installation.
This section describes the installation of the server, using the RPM Package Manager installer, enabling you to choose which components you want to install. The components and filesets are listed in WMQ Components; you must install at least the Runtime and Server components.
  1. Log in as root.
  2. If you are installing from the Server CD-ROM, mount the CD-ROM file system.
  3. Run the mqicense.sh script. If you want to view a text-only version of license, which can be read by a screen-reader, type:
    ./mqlicense.sh -text_only
    The license is displayed.
    If want to accept the license without it being displayed, you can run the mqlicense.sh script with the -accept option.
    ./mqlicense.sh -accept

    You must accept the license agreement before you can proceed with the installation.

  4. Use the rpm -ivh command to install each component that you require. This example shows a minimum installation,
    rpm -ivh MQSeriesRuntime-6.0.0-0.i386.rpm MQSeriesServer-6.0.0-0.i386.rpm
Note: Ensure that /bin/sh is a valid shell interpreter compatible with the Bourne shell, otherwise the post-installation configuration of will not complete successfully.

If your Linux® machine was not installed with RPM, you might see a prerequisites failure of /bin/sh when you try to install . This is because the RPM tables do not recognize that a valid shell interpreter is installed.

If this occurs, you can reinstall the /bin/sh shell using RPM, or specify the RPM option --nodeps to disable dependency checking during installation of WebSphere® MQ.