Better 5250 (AS/400) Emulation Software for Ubuntu

Try to install tn5250 (http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/net/tn5250).

I have already installed tn5250, but ist has no grafical user interface.

I am looking for iseriesaccess for ubuntu linux (i have still downloaded iseriesaccess for suse linux, but it doesn't run under ubuntu).

If you have the .rpm package, you can use alien to convert it into a .deb package.

I had used alien but, when i try to install the deb package, there are a lot of errors. So i can't install it.

Have you tried with alien --script package.rpm?

I have downloaded RPM for Ubuntu.
I tryed:
rpm -ivh iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386.rpm
but there are this error messages:
Fehler: Failed dependencies:
        /bin/sh is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        ld-linux.so.2 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libICE.so.6 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libSM.so.6 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libX11.so.6 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libXext.so.6 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libXm.so.3 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libXmu.so.6 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libXp.so.6 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libXpm.so.4 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libXt.so.6 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libc.so.6 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libdl.so.2 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libgcc_s.so.1 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0) is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libgcc_s.so.1(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libm.so.6 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libodbc.so.1 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libodbcinst.so.1 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libpthread.so.0 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libstdc++.so.5 is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386
        libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2.2) is needed by iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386

With the command
rpm -ivh iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.14.i386.rpm --nodeps

i have installes iSeriesAccess successfully, but when i call the Programm:
./setup5250
./setup5250: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What can i do with this error Message?

Try to install package libmotif3: it provides libXm.so.3.

After i had installed libmotif3 there come other error messages:

setup5250: [ INFORMATIONAL ]: Build Date: 28 April 2006 (1.14)
setup5250: [ INFORMATIONAL ]: ./setup5250
setup5250: [ ERROR ]: Xt Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged.
setup5250: [ ERROR ]: Xt Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion.
Segmentation fault

It is very difficult to solve these problems without iSeries Access source code.
If you really need a graphical user interface, you can try TN5250j (located at http://tn5250j.sourceforge.net/).

The IBM iSeries Access software can't handle UTF-8 and needs fallbacks. You have to generate *.ISO-8859-1 locales.
For example if your locale-settings are "de_DE.uft8" you need to:

~$ sudo locale-gen de_DE
Generating locales...
  de_DE.ISO-8859-1...

this schould help.

Hello Martin,

i have tried your solution and now it works fine.

Thanks!!!

Hi ,

I have the same problems - but ?! where can I found "RPM for Ubuntu" ????

thanx

Holger

Hello Holger,

use the program alien to convert the RPM package into a deb package.

Mattes

Hello,

now i have installed Ubuntu 6.10.
When i call ibm5250, i type my as/400 ip, user an password and klick OK, i get error messages:

5250: [ INFORMATIONAL ]: Build Date: 28 April 2006 (1.14).
5250: [ ERROR ]: NSC0017: Xt Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion.
5250: [ ERROR ]: NSC0017: Xt Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-19-*-75-75-m-*" to type FontSet.

What can i do?

Mattes

I am getting the same error, any updated info for the fix to this.
Thanx,
Allen

Check out these posts from the forums:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=165337&highlight=iseries
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1261.html

@Mattes you need to install msttcorefonts with the with the univers repository enabled.

<pre>sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
sudo fc-cache -f -v</pre>