Installing Packaging Utility

Use IBM Packaging Utility to copy a product package.

About this task

The Packaging Utility installation files can be download directly from a technote. The technote that contains the installation files has the title "IBM Packaging Utility, version" where version is the version number. To search for Packaging Utility, see: http://www.ibm.com/support/search.wss?&q=packaging+utility+1.4.1.
Note: This link searches for version 1.4.1 of Packaging Utility. A newer version of Packaging Utility might be available.
If Installation Manager is not already installed, it is installed when Packaging Utility is installed. Installation files for Installation Manager are included with the installation files for Packaging Utility.
Note: A version of Installation Manager might be included with the IBM software product product. In some cases, the version of Installation Manager from the Packaging Utility installation files is different than the version of Installation Manager included with the IBM software product.

You cannot use the Packaging Utility to install Installation Manager. You must have Installation Manager installed on the local machine to use a repository created by Packaging Utility.

You can run a stand-alone version of Packaging Utility that does not require installation. See the IBM Installation Manager Information Center: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/install/v1r4/index.jsp for more information about the stand-alone version of Packaging Utility. If you install Packaging Utility instead of using the stand-alone version of Packaging Utility, you can use Installation Manager to update Packaging Utility.

Procedure

To install Packaging Utility:

  1. Download the Packaging Utility installation files for your platform.  
  2. Extract the compressed file.
  3. Navigate to the Packaging Utility directory.
  4. Extract the Packaging Utility installation package from the compressed file, pu.disk_platform.zip.
    • Example directories that contain the extracted installation files:
      • Windows: C:\install_files\PackagingUtility
      • Linux or UNIX systems: /install_files/PackagingUtility
  5. Run the executable file to install Packaging Utility. 
    1. Change to the PackagingUtility\InstallerImage_platform directory in the folder where the pu.disk_platform.zip file is unpacked.
    2. Run the install command.
    • Windows®: C:\install_files\PackagingUtility\disk_platform\InstallerImage_platform\install.exe
    • Linux® and UNIX® system: /install_files/PackagingUtility/disk_platform/InstallerImage_platform/install
    Important: On Windows, use install.exe for installations that use the GUI. Use installc.exe for silent installs. It is not supported to use install.exe for silent installs. The installation steps in this topic are using the GUI to install Packaging Utility.
  6. Start the executable file and follow the instructions in the wizard to install the Packaging Utility. If Installation Manager is not installed, both Installation Manager and Packaging Utility are listed on the Install Packages window and are installed. You must install Installation Manager. You can accept or modify the default values for the different directories. Attention: You specify the Shared Resources directory only the first time that you install a package. For best results, select the drive that has the most available space to ensure adequate space for the shared resources of future packages. You cannot change the location of the Shared Resources directory unless you uninstall all packages.

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