Installing MQ 9.2.1 over an earlier release of MQ was almost easy!

I started here and downloaded the developer edition into ~/MQ921.

• • I had to cd ~/MQ921/MQSERVER to run the license.sh.
  • I could not edit a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d because I was not authorised, using sudo gedit failed with:
    • Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused.   Gtk-WARNING **: 10:34:55.390: cannot open display: :0
    • I could have used xhost +local:  to fix this problem.
  • I used the filename  ibmmq921-install.list instead of the suggested  ibmmq-install.list because I already had an ibmmq.list file in the directory.
  • I created  ibmmq921-install.list in my home directory and then used sudo mv ibmmq921-install.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ .
    
  • Initially I forgot to do sudo apt update – so the install did not find the updated file.
  • When I ran sudo apt update it displayed 10 packages can be upgraded. Run ‘apt list –upgradable’ to see them.
  • I ran sudo apt update and it displayed 

ibmmq-client/unknown 9.2.1.0 amd64 [upgradable from: 9.1.5.0]
ibmmq-gskit/unknown 9.2.1.0 amd64 [upgradable from: 9.1.5.0]
ibmmq-java/unknown 9.2.1.0 amd64 [upgradable from: 9.1.5.0]
ibmmq-jre/unknown 9.2.1.0 amd64 [upgradable from: 9.1.5.0]
ibmmq-man/unknown 9.2.1.0 amd64 [upgradable from: 9.1.5.0]
ibmmq-runtime/unknown 9.2.1.0 amd64 [upgradable from: 9.1.5.0]
ibmmq-samples/unknown 9.2.1.0 amd64 [upgradable from: 9.1.5.0]
ibmmq-sdk/unknown 9.2.1.0 amd64 [upgradable from: 9.1.5.0]
ibmmq-server/unknown 9.2.1.0 amd64 [upgradable from: 9.1.5.0]
ibmmq-web/unknown 9.2.1.0 amd64 [upgradable from: 9.1.5.0]

1. • I ran sudo apt upgrade it ran for a short while and ended successfully.
   • The command dspmqver showed Version 9.2.1.0 – so success.
   • Starting the queue manager strmqm QMA gave IBM MQ queue manager ‘QMA’ started using V9.2.1.0

It got messy

After I had successfully installed MQ, the next time I ran sudo apt update it gave me lots of messages like 

Get:1 file:/home/colinpaice/MQ921/MQServer ./ InRelease
Ign:1 file:/home/colinpaice/MQ921/MQServer ./ InRelease
Get:2 file:/home/colinpaice/MQ921/MQServer ./ Release
Ign:2 file:/home/colinpaice/MQ921/MQServer ./ Release

By adding in the file, means apt checks it every time.  I could not see how any updates were going to appear in the files, so I removed the file from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

I also deleted the files I downloaded (890 MB) and the unzipped directory (927MB).  (I needed to use sudo rm -r MQ921 because the files have write-protection.

Not very tidy.