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Manual install with Eclipse update manager
The Lotus Expeditor platform has the built-in ability to install features packaged in an Eclipse Update Site. This install can be initiated manually by a user of the client.
Before you begin
- Lotus Expeditor must be installed on the client. It may have been installed using the Lotus Expeditor installer, or the IBM Sales Center quick install. For production install by client imaging, Lotus Expeditor should be installed on the prototype client using either method so that it becomes part of the initial client image.
- Lotus Expeditor must not be using the Enterprise Management Agent. The update manager's Graphical User Interface is not available once the Agent is enabled.
- The update site must be available to the client. It may be on the client's local hard disk or CDROM, or on a fileserver or Web or FTP server accessible from the client.
Procedure
- Open the Sales Center in administrator mode.
- Select Application > Install.
- In the Install window, select Search for new features to install.
- If the update site directory is available on the client hard disk, CDROM, or on a shared file server, click on Add Folder Location in the Application Locations dialog and enter the path to the update site directory. Click on Add Remote Location and enter the URL to the update site if it is available on an FTP, HTTP, or HTTPS server. Click OK.
- Back in the Application Locations dialog ensure the new update site is selected and click Next.
- Choose which features from the update site to install and select Next.
- Accept the license agreement.
- Choose a feature to install. If you do not know which to do, accept the default. Do not select the check box labeled Show base WebSphere Everyplace Deployment location, as features installed in the install sites it displays cannot later be managed with the GUI.
- Click Finish and the selected features will install.
- A dialog will ask whether to restart the workbench. Click Yes
Results
UninstallIf the Enterprise Management Agent is not enabled, and the -clientAdmin option is provided when starting Sales Center, the Application > Application Management menu item will be visible. The -clientAdmin option is used to expose the Application Management menu item as well as several preference pages that Sales Center normally hides, and may be used as necessary on an installed client in order to access these user interface pages.
Select the Application Management item opens a dialog that can be used to disable or uninstall features, as long as they were not installed into one of the Lotus Expeditor base install sites.
The features could have been installed using any of the install mechanisms.
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