How to connect to foreign DB2 database using Python (Ubuntu)

Question

sudo easy_install ibm_db-1.0.1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg only works after sudo apt-get install python-dev. Some troubles to find that out in the first place ...

Downloaded from IBM site v9.5fp5_linuxia32_dsdriver.tar.gz and pointing IBM_DB_DIR and IBM_DB_LIB to the clidriver(/lib) dir -- is this needed/correct one? -- libdb2.so(.1) is in there...

Nevertheless:

>>> import ibm_db
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: libdb2.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any help is very much appreciated!

Answer 1

Got it to work as described here: http://code.google.com/p/ibm-db/issues/detail?id=53