development. If the application server and the database server are to be placed 

at same system, you can install both DB2 UDB server and Application 

Development Client in one step by selecting Custom installation type.

In our project we followed the following steps for the install of DB2 UDB V8.1 on 

Linux: 

Log on to Linux as 

root

user.

Mount the CD ROM using 

mount /cdrom

Change to the CD ROM directory 

cd /cdrom

Launch DB2 Setup wizard with 

d2setup 

Choose

 Install Products

 once the DB2 Launchpad opens. 

On the Select installation type

panel click 

Custom

.

On the Select the features

panel make your choices. We make sure 

Application Development tools

 is selected as shown in Figure 4 1. Our 

sample application uses PHP, which needs the library in Application 

Development tools.

Figure 4 1   DB2 custom installation with Application Development tools selected

For DAS user, we chose the default 

dasusr1

.

In Instance setup, we let DB2 create the instance for us by choosing

 Create a 

DB2 instance

.

We do not require the partitioning capability of DB2 in our sample application, 

so we chose 

Single partition instance

 in

Instance use

.

In Instance owing user, we let DB2 create the instance owner ID and use all 

the default settings.

In 

F

enced user, we also let DB2 create the ID for us.

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