IBM® Installation Manager might
become unresponsive because an update of Installation
Manager failed,
installation directory files were accidentally removed, or the program
files became corrupted.
About this task
To fix these issues, you can reinstall Installation
Manager without
uninstalling other packages that are installed. The reinstalled version
continues to use the current Agent Data Location directory, which
is the memory of the Installation
Manager,
and can detect the previously installed packages. To reinstall Installation
Manager,
you can use the -reinstallIM option or manually reinstall Installation
Manager.
To
use the installer to manually reinstall Installation
Manager, see Manually reinstalling Installation Manager.
Procedure
To reinstall Installation
Manager by
using the -reinstallIM option:
- You must use the installation files from the same version
or a later version of the installed version of Installation
Manager.
To download the latest version of Installation
Manager,
see Installation
Manager downloads.
- Extract the installation files to a temporary location.
- Run the command to reinstall Installation
Manager from
the directory that contains the extracted files.
Table 1. Examples of using
the -reinstallIM option by operating system and modeOperating system |
Administrator |
Nonadministrator |
Group |
Windows |
install.exe -reinstallIM |
userinst.exe -reinstallIM |
Not available. |
Linux, UNIX, IBM i,
and z/OS® |
./install -reinstallIM |
./userinst -reinstallIM |
./groupinst -dataLocation /user_home_directory/var/ibm/InstallationManager_Group -reinstallIM Group
mode is not supported on IBM i.
|
- When the installation is complete, start Installation
Manager.