Installing SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise Express Edition on Centos 6

Had to install SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise Express Edition on a new centos 6 vm for a client.

I used the instructions below from THIS site:

Prepare the Operating System

mkdir -p /opt/sybase 
mkdir -p /var/sybase 
groupadd sybase 
useradd -g sybase -d /opt/sybase sybase 
chown sybase:sybase /opt/sybase 
chown sybase:sybase /var/sybase 

Required packages



yum install csh
yum install file
yum install libaio
yum install libXext
yum install libXrender
yum install libXtst
yum install libXi


Prepare the Installation



su - sybase 

mkdir work 
mkdir iq16 
cd work 
<put the software in this directory> 
Unzipped the package
Installed the latest version of Java 8 JDK