Issue
This is one of those brain-dead things that I need to do for most the new development servers I set up at work. We used to have the steps documented on our wiki, but that got wiped out recently and so I had to figure this out again.
Without the MQ client packages installed, I was seeing the following error when trying to install a Python MQ client library:
In file included from mqclient.c:2:0:
module.h:6:18: fatal error: cmqc.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
Solution
For future reference, here are the steps that worked for me. These assume you are logged in as root on the Debian server. These are for version 7.0.1.10, but I imagine can be more or less easily adapted to other versions.
1. Install alien for rpm packages
If not yet installed on your server:
apt-get install alien
2. Download IBM Websphere package
I believe the 7.0.1 versions can be found here, along with links to other versions.
3. Unzip package in /tmp/mqclient directory and accept license
mkdir /tmp/mqclient
cp mqc7_7.0.1.10_linuxx86.tar.gz /tmp/mqclient
tar zxvf mqc7_7.0.1.10_linuxx86.tar.gz
./mqlicense.sh
Select the appropriate option to accept the license.
4. Set up mqm user
adduser mqm
usermod -m -d /var/mqm mqm
5. Install MQSeries packages
alien --scripts --to-deb MQSeriesRuntime-7.0.1-10.i386.rpm
alien --scripts --to-deb MQSeriesClient-7.0.1-10.i386.rpm
alien --scripts --to-deb MQSeriesSDK-7.0.1-10.i386.rpm
dpkg -i mqseriesruntime_7.0.1-10_i386.deb
dpkg -i mqseriesclient_7.0.1-10_i386.deb
dpkg -i mqseriessdk_7.0.1-10_i386.deb
And, voila, hopefully that does it. Remember to double check the paths in these steps against the ones you are actually using for your particular package and best of luck.
Answered By - klenwell Answer Checked By - David Goodson (WPSolving Volunteer)