Comments on: QuickBooks Enterprise Install on Debian

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:08:41 +0000

Yeah, unfortunately I don’t know much about Ubuntu server and what exactly is different, but typically in a server environment these days you always want to run 64-bit since it doesn’t have memory restrictions.

I understand going with Ubuntu since it’s on your test box, but I would give the 64-bit version of Debian some serious consideration. I don’t think you’d have as many issues.

By: Arek

Arek — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:33:53 +0000

Ryan,
You were right. Server is 64 bit

Linux linux 3.0.0-12-server #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 16:36:30 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I was wonder why the installation process on server was so unstable . I reinstalled it two times. And then some commands just do not work while at home desktop everything works just fine as it should. And I presume because of 64bit server Architecture. Now I am wonder why Ubuntu recommend 64 bit server system if it is so unreliable?

Many thanks
Arek

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:25:51 +0000

Can you try running “uname -m” and see what output you get on your server? It should be x86_64 or something to that effect indicating you’re using a 64-bit version of Ubuntu Server. You could try downloading and install the 32bit version http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/download). I don’t recall from when I wrote the post what version of Debian I was using when I installed it, but almost always use 64-bit, so I wonder if Ubuntu doesn’t include some i386 libraries.

Have you tried using Debian at all? Cleaner than Ubuntu in my opinion…could try both architectures there as well.

By: Arek

Arek — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:16:13 +0000

Hi Ryan,
Print out from server

root@linux:/home/arek# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric

At home I have installed desktop version and at work server version. At both machines I have run update of packages.
Thank again for quick respond
Arek

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:42:26 +0000

Hi Arek

Are you using the 32-bit version of Ubuntu on both machines? Ideally you would want to use a 64-bit OS on the server, but I’m not sure if Quickbooks has released a qbdbm package for the architecture. Just make sure you have the same OS installed with the same architecture.

Ryan

By: Arek

Arek — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:35:57 +0000

Thanks for good tutorial. Everything went well on test machine at home Ubuntu 11.10. Intel dual core Cpu and ASUSTeK COMPUTER P5KPL-CM LGA775 Socket Intel Motherboard. But wen I tried to make it at Dell Poweredge 840 Dual Core 2.13ghz work server after command :

root@linux:/usr/src/#alien qbdbm-22.0-2.i386.rpm

I have received error:
qbdbm-22.0-2.i386.rpm is for architecture i386 ; the package cannot be built on this system

Also I tried previous packages with no lack. Please advise what more can I do.

Thanks in advance

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:16:22 +0000

Thanks Keith. It has been some time since I tried this on Linux…had to resort to Windows unfortunately. Mainly because you can’t just run the server from Linux, it needs a Windows portion anyway, so I found it pointless in the end.

I think this will help more people though. I wish QB would move to a real database solution.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:33:25 +0000

It won’t work unless you download the new version. qbdbfilemon tries to access qbdbmgrn_21 but qbdbmgrn_20 is installed. Use the following commands:

wget http://http-download.intuit.com/http.intuit/CMO/qbes/resources/qbdbm-21.0-6.i386.rpm
alien qbdbm-21.0-6.i386.rpm
dpkg -i qbdbm_21.0-7_i386.deb
update-rc.d qbdbmgrn_21 defaults

It works on Ubuntu 11.04. Hope this saves someone else some frustration.