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This topic applies to WebSphere Application Server Liberty V8.5.5.9 and earlier. For the latest Liberty topics, see the WebSphere Application Server Liberty documentation.
Installing assets using Installation Manager
If you have IBM® Installation Manager installed, you can download and install Liberty Repository assets when you install or upgrade Liberty.
Before you begin
Note: To install Liberty Repository assets,
you must have IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.6.2 or later and be installing or upgrading to
Liberty for WebSphere® Application Server Version 8.5.5.2 or later.
About this task
You can install Liberty Repository assets
from the following repositories:
- The IBM WebSphere Liberty Repository, a public IBM-hosted repository that is accessible through the internet. For more information, see Liberty Repository.
The Liberty Asset Repository Service, an open-source service that you can use to create an on-premises repository that is remotely accessible behind the firewall of an enterprise. For more information, see the WASdev/tool.lars project on GitHub.
Local directory-based repositories that are created by using the installUtility download action. For more information, see Downloading assets using the installUtility command.
You can add the directory-based and Liberty Asset Repository Service repositories to Installation Manager in the same manner that you add the product offering repositories, then install assets from the repositories. Assets are installed from the repositories in the order that you specify them. If these repositories do not contain the assets that you want to install, the assets are installed from the IBM WebSphere Liberty Repository unless you disable it.
To access the IBM
WebSphere Liberty Repository with limited internet
access or through a firewall, ensure that you have access to the following hosts and ports:
- public.dhe.ibm.com on port 443
- asset-websphere.ibm.com on port 443