Installing Installation Manager with the Installation Manager installer

Use the IBM Installation Manager installer to install both IBM Installation Manager and Rational products.

About this task

If Installation Manager is not installed, you can use the Installation Manager installer to silently install Installation Manager with a single command. The Installation Manager installer is included in the installation files for Installation Manager.

The Installation Manager installer uses the initialization, ini, file: silent-install.ini. This file located in the InstallerImage_platform directory. The silent-install.ini file includes default values for command-line arguments. For information about the command-line arguments, see IBM Installation Manager command-line arguments.

After Installation Manager is installed, you can use it to silently install other products packages.

Installing Installation Manager with the Installation Manager installer

Procedure

To install Installation Manager with the Installation Manager installer.

  1. Download the Rational product installation files that are appropriate for your platform. The Installation Manager installer is included in the Rational product installation files.
  2. Extract the compressed file. Example directories that contain the extracted installation files:
    • Windows: C:\install_files\Rational_product
    • Linux or UNIX systems: /install_files/Rational_product
  3. Change to the InstallerImage_platform directory. Example directories:
    • Windows: C:\install_files\Rational_product\disk1\InstallerImage_win32
    • Linux or UNIX systems: /install_files/Rational_product/InstallerImage_platform
  4. Run the installation command.
    • Windows®: installc –-launcher.ini silent-install.ini
      Note:  On Windows, it is not supported to use install.exe for silent installations. Use installc.exe for silent installations.
    • Linux® and UNIX® systems:install --launcher.ini silent-install.ini

Results

When the Installation Manager installer runs in silent installation mode, it reads the response file. The result of this execution should be a status of 0 for success and a non-zero number for failure.

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