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How to install IBM WebSphere MQ on Ubuntu (Linux)

Following are the steps to install IBM WebSphere MQ version 8 on Ubuntu 14.04. 1) Create a user account with name "mqm" in Ubuntu. This should basically create a user called "mqm" and usergroup called "mqm" 2) Login to "mqm" user account and proceed with next steps 3) Increase the open file limit for the user "mqm" to "10240" or higher value. For this open "/etc/security/limits.conf" file and set the values as bellow. mqm       hard  nofile     10240 mqm       soft   nofile     10240 4) Increase the number of processes allowed for the user "mqm" to "4096" or higher value. For this open "/etc/security/limits.conf" file and set the values as bellow. You will need to edit this file as a sudo user. mqm       hard  nproc      4096 mqm       soft   nproc      4096 5) Install "RPM" on Ubuntu if you already don't have it. sudo apt-get install rpm   6) Download