Installing the RHEL 8 xDB RPM Package on IBM Power (ppc64le) v6.2

There are two steps to completing an installation:

• Setting up the repository
• Installing the package

For each step, you must be logged in as superuser.

To log in as a superuser:

sudo su -

Setting up the Repository

1. To register with EDB to receive credentials for the EDB repository, visit: Repository Access Request.

2. Set up the EDB repository:

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   dnf -y install https://yum.enterprisedb.com/edbrepos/edb-repo-latest.noarch.rpm

   This creates the /etc/yum.repos.d/edb.repo configuration file.

3. Add your EDB credentials to the edb.repo file:

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   sed -i "s@<username>:<password>@USERNAME:PASSWORD@" /etc/yum.repos.d/edb.repo

   Where USERNAME:PASSWORD is the username and password available from your EDB account.

4. Install the EPEL repository and refresh the cache:

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   dnf -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
   dnf makecache

5. Enable the codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-*-rpms repository since EPEL packages may depend on packages from it:

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   ARCH=$( /bin/arch )
   subscription-manager repos --enable "codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-${ARCH}-rpms"

6. Disable the built-in PostgreSQL module:

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   dnf -qy module disable postgresql

Installing the Package

dnf -y install edb-xdb

Initial configuration

Before using Replication Server, you must download and install JDBC drivers. See Installing a JDBC driver for details.

• On this page
• Setting up the Repository
• Installing the Package
• Initial configuration