Installing silently

If you install from an electronic image or a repository, you can run Installation Manager in silent mode.

You can then use a batch process to install, update, modify, and uninstall packages through scripts. If you are an administrator, it enables you to customize the installation on the developers' workstations.

A silent installation comprises the following main tasks:
  1. If you are planning to install silently on multiple systems, copy the installation image to a location on a shared drive or server.
  2. Create the response file.
  3. Run Installation Manager in silent installation mode.

When you run Installation Manager in silent mode, its user interface is not available. So you use a response file instead to input the commands that are required to install the package. An install.xml sample response file is available in the InstallerImage_win32 subdirectory of the client and in the InstallerImage_system subdirectory (where system is aix, linux_s390, linux_x86, or win32) of the server. You can use it as is or modify it to your own specifications.

For more information on how to work in silent mode, see the Installation Manager documentation.


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