Liberty Repository[8.5.5.2 or later]
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

This task applies only to installing Liberty Repository features or addons during the installation or upgrade of Liberty for WebSphere Application Server Version 8.5.5.2 or later. For information about installing product samples and open source integrations, see Installation Manager repository for Liberty samples on WASdev.net. For a list of all assets and their descriptions, see the Downloads page on WASdev.net.
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.
  • [8.5.5.6 or later]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.
  • [8.5.5.6 or later]Local directory-based repositories that are created by using the installUtility download action. For more information, see Downloading assets using the installUtility command.
Rather than downloading individual assets, you can download a wlp-featureRepo-<version>.zip file from IBM Fix Central. The .zip file contains a directory-based repository of all features and addons for that fix pack. Downloading assets using these methods creates a repository.config file in the repository that you must point to from Installation Manager.

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

Procedure

  1. [8.5.5.6 or later]Optional: Set up an instance of the Liberty Asset Repository Service or a local directory-based repository, then specify the repository URL or directory path in Installation Manager.

    [8.5.5.8 or later]For Version 8.5.5.8 and later, you can also specify the file path of a directory-based repository compressed in an archive file.

  2. Install Liberty and Liberty Repository assets.

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