Install assets using Installation Manager
If we have IBM Installation Manager installed, we can download and install Liberty Repository assets when we install or upgrade Liberty. To install Liberty Repository assets, we must have IBM Installation Manager Version 1.6.2 or later. We can install Liberty Repository assets from the following repositories:
- Liberty Repository.
A public IBM-hosted repository accessible through the internet.
- Liberty Asset Repository Service
An open source service used to create an on-premises repository remotely accessible behind the firewall of an enterprise.
- Local directory-based repositories.
Which we create using the installUtility download action or by downloading the wlp-featureRepo-<version>.zip file, which contains all applicable features and addons.
Rather than downloading individual assets, we 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 we must point to from Installation Manager.
We can add the directory-based and Liberty Asset Repository Service repositories to Installation Manager in the same manner that we add the product offering repositories, then install assets from the repositories. Assets are installed from the repositories in the order specified them. If these repositories do not contain the assets we want to install, the assets are installed from the Liberty Repository unless you disable it.
Steps
- 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)
- Console mode (imcl -c)
- Command line (imcl)
- Response files
- Choose from the following options for working with Installation Manager:
Parent topic: Install Liberty Repository assets