Package updates provide fixes and updates to installed
product packages. You can use the Update wizard
in IBM® Installation
Manager to
install updates for product packages that were installed with IBM Installation
Manager.
Before you begin
Internet access is required unless your repository preferences
points to a local update site or repository.
Each installed package
has the IBM update repository
set by default. For Installation Manager to
search the IBM update repository
locations for the installed packages, Search service repositories
during installation and updates must be selected in the Repositories tab
of the Preferences page. This preference is selected
by default. For more information about adding a repository, see Specifying the repository.
Important: - If you are using the Update wizard to upgrade
from a previous version of the product, review Upgrading from another release for
information about which product versions are supported.
- Close all programs that were installed with Installation Manager before
running the Update wizard.
- During the update process, Installation Manager might
prompt you for the location of the repository for the base version
of the package. If you installed the product from DVDs or other media,
they must be available when you use the update feature.
Procedure
To find and install product package updates, complete
the following steps:
- Start IBM Installation
Manager.
- Optional: Mount the media or extract the contents
of the compressed file to a temporary directory to create a local
repository. If you are not using the default IBM update repository, you can add a repository
in IBM Installation
Manager to
specify the location of a local copy of the product package.
- Click .
- In the Preferences window, click Add
Repository.
- Enter the media_root_path\disk1\diskTag.inf path
in the Repositories field, and click OK.
- Click OK again to close the Preferences window.
- On the Start page of IBM Installation
Manager,
click Update.
- Optional: If a required version of IBM Installation
Manager is
not detected on your computer, you must continue with the update of
Installation Manager. Follow the instructions in the wizard to complete
the update.
- In the Update wizard, select the product
package group that you want to update or click the Update
All check box and click Next. Installation Manager searches
for updates in its repositories and the predefined update sites for
the product.
- If updates for a package are found, they are displayed
in the Updates list below their corresponding
package and only the recommended updates are displayed by default.
Complete the following steps:
- To display all the updates that are found for the available
packages, click Show all.
- To learn more about an update, click the update and
review its description under Details. If information
about the update is available, click More info at
the end of the description to open the information in a browser. Review
this information before you install the update.
- Select the updates that you want to install or click Select
Recommended to restore the default selections. Updates
that have a dependency relationship are automatically selected or
cleared.
- Click Next.
- On the Licenses page, read the license
agreements for the selected updates. On the left side of the License page,
the list of licenses for the updates you selected is displayed; click
each item to display the license agreement text. If you agree to the
terms of all the license agreements, click I accept the
terms of the license agreements and then Next.
- On the Features page, select the features
that you want to update and complete the following steps:
- To learn more about a feature, click the feature and
review the brief description under Details.
- If you want to see the dependency relationships between
features, select Show Dependencies. When you
click a feature, any features that depend on it and any features that
are its dependents are shown in the Dependencies window.
As you select or exclude features in the packages, Installation Manager will
automatically enforce any dependencies with other features and display
updated download size and disk space requirements for the installation.
- Click Next
- On the Summary page, review your choices
before you install the updates.
- If you want to change the choices you made on previous
pages, click Back, and make your changes.
- When you are satisfied, click Update to
download and install the updates. A progress indicator shows the percentage
of the installation completed.
- Optional: When the update process completes,
a message that confirms the success of the process is displayed near
the top of the page. Click View log file to
open the log file for the current session in a new window. You must
close the Installation Log window to continue.
- Click Finish to close the wizard.
- Optional: Only the features that you already
installed are updated with the Update wizard.
If the update contains new features that you want to install, you
must run the Modify wizard and select the new
features to install from the feature selection panel.