Start Packaging Utility as a non-root user

Start Packaging Utility as a non-root user
On UNIX, the userinst command installs Installation Manager with nonadministrator or non-root user privileges. When Packaging Utility is installed using Installation Manager, the nonadministrator or non-root user privileges apply to Packaging Utility. When Installation Manager is installed with administrator or root privileges, these privileges apply to Packaging Utility. For a non-root user to start an instance of Packaging Utility that was installed with root privileges, the non-root user must use the -data option.
Non-root users cannot start Packaging Utility with the IBMPU launch command if the non-root users do not have read and write privileges for the application data location. By using the -data option with the launch command, non-root users can start Packaging Utility without having administrator privileges.
We can also use the -data option to start Packaging Utility when the application data location is being shared by multiple users.

If we share an instance of Packaging Utility with other users, see Store credentials.
Windows users do not need to use the -data option. Windows nonadministrators can start Packaging Utility with the IBMPU command.

Procedure

Open a command line.
Go to the Packaging Utility directory.
UNIX: install_dir/IBM/PackagingUtility
OS X: install_dir/IBM/Packaging Utility

Run the IBMPU command with the -data option.
Linux, UNIX, and OS X: ./IBMPU -data $HOME
Example: ./IBMPU -data /var/ibm/packagingutility

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