Starting Installation Manager

Most of the time, you start IBM® Installation Manager with the default shortcuts that were installed with your version of Installation Manager. However, if a situation arises when you must open the Installation Manager wizard manually or run Installation Manager in a language other than English, refer to this topic for more information.

From the installation location of Installation Manager, you can run the IBMIM application file to start Installation Manager in wizard mode manually.

Table 1. Default installation locations for application files
Operating system Administrator Nonadministrator Group
Windows® C:\Program Files\IBM\Installation Manager\eclipse C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\IBM\Installation Manager\eclipse Not available.
Linux® or UNIX® /opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse /<user_home_directory>/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse /<user_home_directory>/IBM/InstallationManager_Group/eclipse

Starting Installation Manager in another language

From the command line, you can start Installation Manager by specifying a language other than the default English setting.

About this task

The following list contains the language codes currently supported by Installation Manager:
  • Arabic (ar)
  • Czech (cs)
  • Danish (da)
  • English (en)
  • French (fr)
  • German (de)
  • Greek (el)
  • Hungarian (hu)
  • Italian (it)
  • Japanese (ja)
  • Korean (ko)
  • Lithuanian (li)
  • Polish (pl)
  • Portuguese (pt_BR)
  • Russian (ru)
  • Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
  • Slovenian (sl)
  • Spanish (es)
  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) (zh_TW)
  • Turkish (tr)
Note: Some languages only support partial translations. When a language is partially translated, the untranslated content defaults to English.

Procedure

  1. Open a command-line utility.
  2. Open the eclipse directory.
    • Windows: <install_dir>\IBM\Installation Manager\eclipse
    • Linux or UNIX: <install_dir>/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse
  3. Run the start command with the -nl option and abbreviated language code. Installation Manager opens in wizard mode in the language you specified.

Example

Table 2. Commands by operating system and mode.
Operating system Administrator Nonadministrator Group
Windows IBMIM -nl <language_code> userinst -nl <language_code> Not available.
Linux or UNIX ./IBMIM -nl <language_code> ./userinst -nl <language_code> ./groupinst -nl <language_code>