Installing assets using Installation Manager

If you have IBM® Installation Manager installed, you can download and install Liberty Repository assets when you install or upgrade Liberty.

Before you begin

Note: To install Liberty Repository assets, you must have IBM Installation Manager Version 1.6.2 or later.

About this task

You can install Liberty Repository assets from the following repositories:

The Liberty Repository, a public IBM-hosted repository that is accessible through the internet. For more information, see Liberty Repository.
The Liberty Asset Repository Service, an open source service that you can use to create an on-premises repository that is remotely accessible behind the firewall of an enterprise. For more information, see the WASdev/tool.lars project on GitHub.
Local directory-based repositories, which you create by using the installUtility download action or by downloading the wlp-featureRepo-<version>.zip file, which contains all applicable features and addons. For more information, see Downloading assets using the installUtility command.

Rather than downloading individual assets, you can download a wlp-featureRepo-<version>.zip file from IBM Fix Central. The .zip file contains a directory-based repository of all features and addons for that fix pack. Downloading assets using these methods creates a repository.config file in the repository that you must point to from Installation Manager.

You can add the directory-based and Liberty Asset Repository Service repositories to Installation Manager in the same manner that you add the product offering repositories, then install assets from the repositories. Assets are installed from the repositories in the order that you specify them. If these repositories do not contain the assets that you want to install, the assets are installed from the Liberty Repository unless you disable it.

Procedure

Optional: Set up an instance of the Liberty Asset Repository Service or a local directory-based repository, then specify the repository URL, directory path, or archive path in Installation Manager.
Install Liberty and Liberty Repository assets.
- Choose from the following options for working with Installation Manager:
  - Graphical User Interface (GUI) - The Installation Manager GUI provides a list of available assets and detailed descriptions of each asset. See Installing Liberty on distributed operating systems by using the GUI.
  - Command line - The imcl command can download and install assets. See Installing Liberty on distributed operating systems using the command line.
  - Response files - Installation Manager supports installing assets using recorded or manually created response files. See Installing Liberty on distributed operating systems using response files.
- Choose from the following options for working with Installation Manager:
  - Command line - The imcl command can download and install assets. See Installing Liberty on IBM i operating systems using the command line.
  - Response files - Installation Manager supports installing assets using recorded or manually created response files. For detailed steps about installing assets using Installation Manager in silent mode, see Installing Liberty on IBM i operating systems using response files.
- The imcl command can download and install assets. See Installing WebSphere Application Server for z/OS Liberty.