Installing Liberty on distributed operating systems using the GUI
You can use the Installation Manager GUI to install WebSphere® Application Server Liberty Core.
Before you begin
Prepare your system as described in Installing Installation Manager and preparing to install Liberty.
About this task
To install Version 8.5.5.4 and later of Liberty, you must have IBM
Installation Manager Version 1.6.2 or later.
Procedure
- Start Installation Manager.
Tip: You can start Installation Manager in group mode with the ./IBMIM command.
- Group mode allows multiple users to use a single instance of IBM® Installation Manager to manage software packages.
- For more information on using group mode, read the Group mode road maps in the IBM Installation Manager documentation.
- Click Install. Note: If you are prompted to authenticate, use the IBM ID and password that you registered with on the program website.
Installation Manager searches its defined repositories for available packages.
- Perform the following actions.
- Select IBM WebSphere Application Server
Liberty Core and
the appropriate version. Note: If you are installing the trial version of this product, select the appropriate trial edition and the appropriate version.
If you already have the WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core offering installed on your system in the installation location, a message displays indicating that the product is already installed. To create another installation of the offering in another location, click Continue.
Tip: If the Search service repositories during installation and updates option is selected on the Installation Manager Repository preference page and you are connected to the Internet, you can click Check for Other Versions and Extensions to search for updates in the default update repositories for the selected packages. In this case, you do not need to add the specific service-repository URL to the Installation Manager Repository preference page. - Select the fixes to install.
Any recommended fixes are selected by default.
If there are recommended fixes, you can select the option to show only recommended fixes and hide non-recommended fixes.
- Click Next.
Note: Installation Manager might prompt you to update to the latest level of Installation Manager when it connects to the repository. Update to the newer version before you continue if you are prompted to do so. Read the IBM Installation Manager documentation for information about automatic updates. - Select IBM WebSphere Application Server
Liberty Core and
the appropriate version.
- Accept the terms in the license agreements, and click Next.
- Specify the installation root directory for the product
binaries, which are also referred to as the core product files or
system files. The panel also displays the shared resources directory and disk-space information.Note: The first time that you install a package using Installation Manager, you can specify the shared resources directory. The shared resources directory is where installation artifacts are located that can be used by one or more package groups. It is also used as a staging area for the product payload during installation operations. By default, this content is cached so that it can be used for rollback. Consider setting your rollback preferences to save these files as described in Installing Installation Manager and preparing to install Liberty. Use your largest drive for this installation. You cannot change the directory location until after you uninstall all packages.
If you are installing on a 64-bit system, use the bit-selection option to select the bitness of the installed Java™ libraries. If you are installing on a 32-bit system, this option is not available. When installing on a 64-bit system, you must select either the 32-bit or 64-bit option. This choice will determine the architecture bitness of the installation profile group. All extension offerings to WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core will be installed under the same profile group and have the same architecture bitness. For example, WebSphere SDK Java Technology Edition Version 7.0 for Liberty is an extension offering to WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core and its installation will use a 32-bit or 64-bit JDK depending on your choice here.
Restrictions:- Deleting the default target location and leaving an installation-directory field empty prevents you from continuing.
- Do not use symbolic links as the destination directory.
Symbolic links are not supported.
- Do not use a semicolon in the directory name.
WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core cannot install properly if the target directory includes a semicolon.
A semicolon is the character used to construct the class path on Windows systems.
- Click Next.
- Select the features that you want to install. Choose from the following features:
- IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core
- Embeddable EJB container and JPA client
This option installs the embeddable EJB container and JPA client.
The embeddable EJB container is a Java Archive (JAR) file that you can use to run enterprise beans in a standalone Java Platform, Standard Edition (SE) environment. You can run enterprise beans using this embeddable container outside the application server. The embeddable EJB container is a part of the EJB 3.1 specification and is primarily used for unit testing enterprise beans business logic.
The JPA client can be used with the embeddable EJB container to provide Java Persistence API capability in a Java SE environment.
Tip: You can run Installation Manager later to modify this installation and add or remove this feature.
- Embeddable EJB container and JPA client
- IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core
- Click Next.
Optional: Install additional Liberty Repository assets. If you do not want to select any additional assets, you can skip this step. To install Liberty Repository assets, you must have IBM Installation Manager Version 1.6.2 or later. To learn more about the Liberty Repository and the assets it contains, see Liberty Repository.
- Select whether you want to install assets from the Liberty Repository, and click
Next. To install assets from the IBM WebSphere Liberty Repository, you must have access to the
internet.
If you choose not to connect to the IBM WebSphere Liberty Repository, you can still install assets from configured directory-based repositories or an instance of the Liberty Asset Repository Service. For more information, see Installing assets using Installation Manager.
Click Launch Asset Selection Wizard.
- You can perform a case-insensitive search for assets by display name or description. If you search with the Keyword field empty, then the search displays
all applicable assets.
With Version 8.5.5.5 and later, you can also search for assets by short name.
- Select each asset that you want to install, then click Next.
- Accept the license agreement and click Finish.
- Select whether you want to install assets from the Liberty Repository, and click
Next. To install assets from the IBM WebSphere Liberty Repository, you must have access to the
internet.
- Click Next.
- Review the summary information, and click Install.
- If the installation is successful, the program displays a message indicating that installation is successful. The program might also display important post-installation instructions.
- If the installation is not successful, click View Log File to troubleshoot the problem.
- Click Finish.
- Click File > Exit to close Installation Manager.


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