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.
Before you begin
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.
Procedure
To find and install product package updates, complete
the following steps:
- 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.