Start Packaging Utility in wizard mode

Start Packaging Utility manually or run Packaging Utility in a different language.

• Start Packaging Utility from a command line
• Start Packaging Utility in another language
• Start Packaging Utility with the -secureStorageFile option

Start Packaging Utility in wizard mode from a command line

Use the command line to start Packaging Utility in wizard mode

Procedure

1. Open a command-line utility.

2. Open the installation directory for Packaging Utility.

   Operating system	Administrator	Nonadministrator	Group
   Windows	C:\Program Files [(x86)]\IBM\Packaging Utility	C:\Users\user\IBM\Packaging Utility	Not available
   UNIX	/opt/IBM/PackagingUtility	/user_home/IBM/PackagingUtility	/user_home/IBM/PackagingUtility_Group
   OS X	/Applications/IBM/PackagingUtility	/Users/user_home/IBM/PackagingUtility	/Users/user_home/PackagingUtility_Group

3. Run the command to start Packaging Utility:
   • Windows: IBMPU
   • Linux, UNIX, and OS X: ./IBMPU

Start Packaging Utility in another language

From the command line, we can start Packaging Utility by specifying a language.

The following list contains the languages and the language codes that are currently supported by Packaging Utility:

• Arabic (ar)
• Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
• Catalan (ca)
• Croatian (hr)
• Czech (cs)
• Danish (da)
• Dutch (nl)
• English (en)
• Finnish (fi)
• French (fr)
• German (de)
• Greek (el)
• Hebrew (iw)
• Hungarian (hu)

• Indonesian (in)
• Italian (it)
• Japanese (ja)
• Korean (ko)
• Lithuanian (lt)
• Norwegian (no)
• Portuguese (pt)
• Polish (pl)
• Russian (ru)
• Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
• Slovak (sk)
• Slovenian (sl)
• Spanish (es)
• Swedish (sv)
• Thai (th)
• Traditional Chinese (zh_HK)
• Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) (zh_TW)
• Turkish (tr)

Some languages support only partial translations. When a language is partially translated, the non-translated content is presented in English.

Procedure

1. Open a command-line utility.

2. Open the directory that is appropriate for your operating system:
   • Windows: install_dir\IBM\Packaging Utility
   • UNIX: install_dir/IBM/PackagingUtility

3. Run the command to start Packaging Utility with the -nl option and abbreviated language code. Packaging Utility opens in the language that you specified.

Example

Operating system
Windows	IBMPU -nl language_code
Linux, UNIX, and OS X	./IBMPU -nl language_code

Start Packaging Utility with the -secureStorageFile option

Start Packaging Utility with the -secureStorageFile and -masterPasswordFile options. The credentials that we use for this instance of Packaging Utility are stored in the secure storage file. For information about these options, see Command-line arguments for the pucl command.

Procedure

1. Open a command-line utility.

2. Open the directory that is appropriate for your operating system:
   • Windows: install_dir\IBM\Packaging Utility
   • UNIX: install_dir/IBM/PackagingUtility

3. Run the command to start Packaging Utility with the -secureStorageFile and -masterPasswordFile options.

Example

Operating system	Command
Windows	IBMPU -secureStorageFile storage_file -masterPasswordFile master_password_file
Linux, UNIX, and OS X	./IBMPU -secureStorageFile storage_file -masterPasswordFile master_password_file

What to do next

When you store credentials for a repository, the credentials are saved to the secure storage file. Starting in version 1.7, if we do not specify the -secureStorageFile and -masterPasswordFile options, Installation Manager uses the Equinox Secure Storage mechanism from Eclipse by default to store credentials and generate a default storage file that is secured with a predefined password. In older versions, a key ring file was used to store the credentials by default. The key ring file is not supported with version 1.6.2 and later. After you upgrade to version 1.7 or later, we cannot authenticate with secure storage files that were created in an earlier version. You must re-create those secure storage files.

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