BI 4.1 Installation on Redhat 5.6

we will go through the steps necessary to setup and install SAP BI 4.1 SP01 on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 system. This will be a basic and default (full) installation of BI4.1 SP01 using the bundled Sybase SQL Anywhere database and Tomcat 7.0 Application server. This document assumes that you're installing from scratch and that no pre-existing BI products have been installed

Prerequisites:

General
Only 64-bit Operating systems are supported
Installation target must have adequate disk space ~20gb (will require much more to account for applying patches and SP's).
Temporary filesystem space ~2gb
Create a user account and group under which the BI4.1 SP01 software will run. This account does not require root privileges
Locale: Configure a supported UTF-8 locale by setting LC_ALL and LANG environment variables.

Example:

export LANG=en_US.utf8
export LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
ulimit settings must be set to unlimited by using the ulimit command or editing /etc/security/limits.conf manually.
read, write and execute permission to the installation target destination directory

You may get following error if you try to install with out installaing required library files.

ERROR:

./setup.sh
/pae/BOE140/SAP4.1-SP2/51047191/DATA_UNITS/BusinessObjectsServer_lnx/setupexe -launchedFromSH
/pae/BOE140/SAP4.1-SP2/51047191/DATA_UNITS/BusinessObjectsServer_lnx/setup.engine/setupengine.bin: error while loading shared libraries: /pae/BOE140/SAP4.1-SP2/51047191/DATA_UNITS/BusinessObjectsServer_lnx/setup.engine/libperlcwrapper.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
Finished, return code is 0

Resolution: run the following command as root to avoid the above error.


echo "`semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t /pae/BOE140/SAP4.1-SP2/51047191/DATA_UNITS/BusinessObjectsServer_lnx/setup.engine/libperlcwrapper.so`"
echo "`chcon -f -t textrel_shlib_t /pae/BOE140/SAP4.1-SP2/51047191/DATA_UNITS/BusinessObjectsServer_lnx/setup.engine/libperlcwrapper.so`"

ERROR: When you try to install with the required library files following error will display..


Information: Missing patch: compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.x86_64
Missing patch:compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386.rpm


Resolution:

Before installing on Red Hat Linux, you must ensure all the required libraries are installed. Ensure you have root access, then use the Yum software installation tool to run the following commands:

yum install compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.x86_64.rpm
yum install compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386.rpm

Running Setup
To launch setup, navigate to the media for BI4.1 SP02 and execute ./setup.sh

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