How to install IBM Installation Manager in Linux

In this article, you will learn how to install IBM installation manager in Linux using command line. IBM Installation Manager is a programme that helps you put the IBM Integration Designer packages on your workstation. It also helps you update, change, and remove this package and any others that you install. A package can be a product, a group of components, or just one component that the Installation Manager is meant to install.

Prerequisites

• Need to have IBM id to install IBM WAS
• Super user or any normal user with SUDO privileges

Steps to install IBM IM

Step1. To install the IBM Installation manager, you need to download it first. Download IBM installation manager from official site using wget command.

Here, from lift menu, select installation manager, IM, then version of your IM and select the desired packages and click on "Submit".

Step2. Unzip the archive, in our case its name is- agent.installer.linux.gtk.x86_64_1.9.2003.20220917_1018.zip

# unzip agent.installer.linux.gtk.x86_64_1.9.2003.20220917_1018.zip

Step 3. After executing cd <newlyCreatedDirectory>/tools, execute the below command.

 # ./imcl install com.ibm.cic.agent -repositories /root/ibm/repository.config -acceptLicense -showProgress

Now, this has created a new directory as /opt/IBM/InstallationManager. You can list the available directories using ls command as below.

That is how you can install IBM Installation manager. And now you can install packages like IBM Websphere Application Server in Linux.

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