Package updates provide fixes and updates to installed product
packages. You can use the Update Packages wizard in IBM® Installation
Manager to install updates for product packages that were installed by using IBM Installation
Manager.
Internet access is required unless your repository preferences points
to a local update site.
Each installed package has the location embedded
for its default IBM update
repository. For Installation Manager to search the IBM update repository locations for the
installed packages, the preference Search service repositories
during installation and updates on the Repositories preference
page must be selected. This preference is selected by default.
See the
Installation Manager help for more information.
Important: - Close all programs that were installed using Installation Manager before
updating.
- During the update process, Installation Manager might prompt you for the
location of the repository for the base version of the package. If you installed
the product from DVDs or other media, they must be available when you use
the update feature.
To find and install product package updates:
- Start IBM Installation Manager.
- On the Start page of IBM Installation Manager, click Update.
- Optional: If a required version of IBM Installation
Manager is not detected on your computer, you must continue with the update
of Installation Manager. Follow the instructions in the wizard to complete
the update.
- In the Update Packages wizard, select the product package group
that you want to update or click the Update All check
box and click Next. Installation Manager
searches for updates in its repositories and the predefined update sites for
the product.
- On the Update page, if updates for a package are found, they are
displayed in the Updates list below their corresponding
package and only recommended updates are displayed by default. Complete the
following steps:
- To display all updates found for the available packages, click Show
all.
- To learn more about an update, click the update and review its
description under Details. If additional information
about the update is available, a More info link will
be included at the end of the description text. Click the link to display
the information in a browser. Review this information before installing the
update.
- Select the updates that you want to install or click Select
Recommended to restore the default selections. Updates that have
a dependency relationship are automatically selected or cleared.
- Click Next.
- On the Licenses page, read the license agreements for the selected
updates. On the left side of the License page, the list of licenses for the
updates you selected is displayed; click each item to display the license
agreement text. If you agree to the terms of all the license agreements, click I
accept the terms of the license agreements and Click Next.
- On the Features page, select the features that you want to update
and complete the following steps:
- To learn more about a feature, click the feature and review
the brief description under Details.
- If you want to see the dependency relationships between features,
select Show Dependencies. When you click a feature,
any features that depend on it and any features that are its dependents are
shown in the Dependencies window. As you select or exclude features in the
packages, Installation Manager will automatically enforce any dependencies
with other features and display updated download size and disk space requirements
for the installation.
- Click Next
- On the Summary page, review your choices before installing the
updates.
- If you want to change the choices you made on previous pages,
click Back, and make your changes.
- When you are satisfied, click Update to
download and install the updates. A progress indicator shows the percentage
of the installation completed.
- Optional: When the update process completes, a message
that confirms the success of the process is displayed near the top of the
page. Click View log file to open the log file for
the current session in a new window. You must close the Installation Log window
to continue.
- Click Finish to close the wizard.
- Optional: Only the features that you already have installed
are updated using the Update wizard. If the update
contains new features that you would like to install, run the Modify wizard
and select the new features to install from the feature selection panel.