Appendix: IBM Packaging Utility
You can use the IBM® Packaging Utility software to copy packages to a repository that can be placed on a web server available over HTTP or HTTPS. It is useful if you have different offerings or service updates you want to place in a single repository in addition to Rational® Programming Patterns. You can use this repository to perform interactive or silent installations.
You can use this utility to perform the following tasks:
- Generate a new repository for packages.
- Copy packages to a new repository. You can copy multiple packages into a single repository; you then create a common location in your enterprise from which products can be installed with IBM Installation Manager.
- Delete packages from a repository.
For detailed instructions on installing and using IBM Packaging Utility, see the Installation Manager product documentation.
To install the Rational Programming
Patterns package from a repository on an HTTP or HTTPS server, take
the following steps:
- Place the installation files in a temporary directory on your workstation.
- Install the IBM Packaging Utility.
- With the Packaging Utility, copy the Rational Programming Patterns package.
- Copy the output of the IBM Packaging Utility to an HTTP or HTTPS web server.
- Copy the installation files for IBM Installation Manager to a shared drive.
- Instruct users in your organization to install IBM Installation Manager.
- Provide users the URL for the repository that contains the Rational Programming Patterns package you created earlier.
Note: You can also use the repository to install silently. For
more information about silent installation, see Installing silently.