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Chapter 2 – Installing Community Edition
Community Edition can run on Linux, UNIX or Windows and is very easy to install. It has no
licensing limitations in terms of the hardware resources you can use. If you are working on
the cloud and don't want to bother installing products, there are Community Edition and
DB2 Express-C images available for development, test, and production use on the Amazon
EC2 cloud.
In this chapter you will learn about:
• How to obtain the Community Edition code
• How to install Community Edition on Windows
• How to install Community Edition on Linux
• Community Edition and DB2 Express-C on the cloud
2.1 Installing Community Edition: The big picture
Installing Community Edition consists of 3 basic steps:
1. Download Community Edition,
2. Obtain and install a Java Runtime Environment (JRE), and
3. Install Community Edition.
We focus our discussion on step 1 and 3 in this book. For step 2, refer to the Getting
started with Java free ebook. Figure 2.1 illustrates the steps to follow to get started with
Community Edition.