Installing Migration Toolkit on SLES 12 x86_64#

Prerequisites#

Before you begin the installation process:

Set up the EDB repository.

Setting up the repository is a one-time task. If you have already set up your repository, you don’t need to perform this step. To determine if your repository exists, enter this command: zypper lr -E | grep enterprisedb If no output is generated, the repository isn’t installed.

To set up the EDB repository:

  1. Go to EDB repositories .

  2. Select the button that provides access to the EDB repository.

  3. Select the platform and software that you want to download.

  4. Follow the instructions for setting up the EDB repository.

Activate the required SUSE module:

  sudo SUSEConnect -p PackageHub/12.5/x86_64
  sudo SUSEConnect -p sle-sdk/12.5/x86_64

```  Refresh the metadata:

```shell
  sudo zypper refresh

Install the package#

sudo zypper -n install edb-migrationtoolkit

Initial configuration#

Before invoking Migration Toolkit, you must download and install JDBC drivers for connecting to the source and target databases. See