Using repository locations
If you have Installation Manager installed, and you downloaded and extracted the installation packages to your computer, you can start the installation by specifying the location of the installation file repositories.
Before you begin
- Download all of the files required for the installation and extract them to a repository location in the recommended structure. For more information about extracting the files, see t_unpacking_media.html#t_unpacking_media
About this task
- If you download the launchpad package and point to the repository.config file in that package, the locations of all the required installation files and the update repositories are preconfigured. Provided you extracted all the installation files in the recommended structure, Installation Manager finds all the required files automatically, and you do not need to create separate repository locations for each of the installation packages.
- If you downloaded only the core installation packages and not the launchpad package, you must create repository locations that point to the disktag.inf file in each package. If there are multiple packages, you must create repository locations for each package. If a package contains multiple disks, create repository locations pointing to each disktag.inf file or supply the information when prompted during the installation.
Procedure
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Start an existing instance of Installation
Manager and provide the location of the installation package as a
repository:
- In Installation Manager, click .
- Click Add Repository Location and provide the path to the repository.config file (if it is a setup or launchpad package) or the file (if it is a core installation package) in the installation directory that you extractedthat is in the directory into which you extracted the package.
Table 1. Examples of repository locations Applications to install Downloaded and extracted packages Repository locations to configure - Rational® Integration Tester
- IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel
- IBM® Rational® Functional Tester
RTW_SETUP (launchpad package)
RIT_SETUP
RTCP_SETUP
RFT
C:\Install\RTW_SETUP\repository.config - Rational® Integration Tester
- Rational® Test Control Panel
- IBM® Rational® Functional Tester
RIT_SETUP
RTCP_SETUP
RFT
C:\Install\RIT_SETUP\disk1\disktag.inf
C:\Install\RTCP_SETUP\disk1\disktag.inf
C:\Install\RFT\disk1\disktag.inf
- Select the language for the installation program.
- Click Install IBM Rational Test Workbench.