How do I install a RPM distribution of MaxDB?
First of all: a RPM installation differs from an SDB*-tool based installation (SDBINST – command line installation tool distribution, SDBSETUP – Installation Manager GUI). The RPM distribution contains tools that may not be part of the SDB*-tool distribution and vice versa. Most of the files missing in the RPM distribution are required for SAP usage (R/3, NetWeaver and liveCache) or for backward compatibility with versions prior to 7.5.