This article describes the installation of a SAP Netweaver 751 ABAP platform (in the following abbreviated as sapnw) for privat not commercial purpose.
Please note that I haven’t invent the wheel again. This is just a collection of guides and tutorials from other people that was working for me after some fixes. Credits goes to the creators of the content in the Links section especially wechris and Julie Plummer. in the Additional Links section you can find further information.
Essentially we will build an image for a VirtualBox appliance where sapnw will run. From there we connect with Eclipse ABAP developer tools and the SAP GUI for Netweaver. This article is assuming that your are running a Linux host machine. Nevertheless, this guide also applies on Windows machines as we are running sapnw on a virtual machine.
For completeness although the following software will be handled by the created virtual machine. If you want to skip the part with the virtual machine and install sapnw native on your machine make sure to fulfill these requirements.
From SAP download the SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP Developer Edition in version 7.51 SP02. In order to download the archives in our (linux) shell we download and accept the terms within a webbrowser with enabled network analysis tools. Then we copy the request as curl and paste it into our commandline. We append -o part01.rar to tell curl to save the output in a file (default is stdout). Now we can duplicate the requests and increment the numbers.
After downloading all parts we extract the archives. In Debian the package unrar-free does not handle multi-part archives. To install the nonfree version we must enable the nonfree repoistory by appending non-free to our main repo: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free and than install the package with apt-get install unrar-nonfree. Afterwards we extract the archives with unrar x part01.rar. The x creates the directory structure of the archive. Unrar is able to find all parts of the archives itself.
Manually mount the shared folder (“vagrant”) from your host if necessary: mount -t vboxsf vagrant /vagrant(see HowTo - shared folders for help)
Install Xserver and a DE of choice (I recommend XFCE: zypper install -t pattern xfce)
Create a CD drive, mount and install the vbox guest additions
cd into the install (shared) folder (/vagrant by default)
Make install.sh executable with chmod +x install.sh.
Add the line domain dummy.nodomain to /etc/resolv.conf in order to start the SAPGUI installer
Start installer with./install.sh -g. We must use the graphical installer as the unattended installer throws an error with a database connection. I guess that there is some kind of timeout or weird thing.
After hitting the installer at some point it stops showing an URL which you must open in your VM’s browser. This is the graphical installer which you must complete.
After completing the installer a sapnw instance is up and running
