Installing silently

Use IBM Installation Manager to run a silent install of a Rational product. When you run a silent install, the Installation Manager interface is not available. Installation Manager uses a response file that contains commands required to install the product package.

About this task

You can install, update, modify and uninstall product packages using a silent install.

Important: You must install Installation Manager before you can silently install a product package.

Procedure

To perform a silent installation of Installation Manager then a product package, you can do the following tasks:

  1. Run a silent install of Installation Manager using the Installation Manager installer, see Installing Installation Manager with the Installation Manager installer.
  2. Run a silent install of the Rational product, see Using Installation Manager to silently install and update.

Results

In addition, you can find more information about Installation Manager and silent installations in the Installation Manager Information Center under the Documentation link at: http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/installmanager/support/index.html.


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