Installing DB2 9.1 on Ubuntu Dapper (6.06)
DB2 is one of the few industrial strength, fully featured database systems that has a community edition available for free use. It supports stored-procedures, and all the standard MySQL-esque features, in addition to triggers and all sorts of data partitioning. And it even ships with a full set of administrative GUI tools. Unfortunately, nobody has taken the time to document the process of getting DB2 installed on Ubuntu Dapper (6.06 LTS). This is my attempt to do so and save others some of the confusion that I went though getting it to work.
If you’re feeling adventurous, you can read the official DB2 9.1 documentation and the many, many DB2 Manuals available on IBMs site.