Ubuntu _is_ supported now.

LDP/howto/docbook/DB2-HOWTO.xml

@@ -21,11 +21,10 @@
   <firstname>Rory</firstname>
   <surname>Hinton</surname>
 </author>
-<othercredit role='converter'>
+<author>
   <firstname>Dan</firstname> 
   <surname>Scott</surname> 
-  <contrib>Conversion to DocBook XML.</contrib>
-</othercredit>
+</author>
 <authorinitials>idmh</authorinitials>
     <revhistory>
       <revision>
@@ -1869,11 +1868,7 @@ Log in as the db2inst1 and invoke the DB2 Control Center:
     Before proceeding, please ensure that you have read
     <xref linkend='planning'/> and <xref linkend='installing'/>.
   </para>
-<para>Note that IBM does not officially support this distribution for
-DB2 UDB V8.2. Any problems you encounter using this distribution must be
-replicated on a supported distribution before IBM Support will help you
-resolve the issue.</para>
-<para>These notes are based on a single-partition installation on the 
+<para>These notes are based on a single-partition installation on 
   Ubuntu 5.04. As Ubuntu uses .deb packages, we use the <command>alien</command>
   package conversion utility to convert and install the DB2 RPM packages directly.
 </para>
@@ -1887,7 +1882,7 @@ If you want to run a multiple-partition environment, you will need to install ei
   To install the product into the /opt/IBM/db2/V8.1/ directory, change
   to the db2/linux/ directory of the CD or the extracted tarball
   and issue the following command:
-<screen>sudo alien -d -i -c *.rpm</screen>
+<screen>sudo alien -dic *.rpm</screen>
 </para>
 </sect2>
 <sect2><title>Post-installation notes</title>