Step: Run the IBM® installer

Before you run the IBM® installer, verify that you have met the following prerequisites.

You downloaded the IBM® installer and products you plan to install, and you put both the IBM® installer and the product installers in the same directory.

You gathered the information described in Step: Obtain required information and have it available. To help you gather required information, see Example installation prompts.

Run the IBM® installer as described here, and follow the instructions to complete the prompts.

See the other topics in this section for details about the information you provide during installation.

An annotated example of the installation prompts, using console mode on a UNIX™ server, follows if you need help entering information during the installation.

Do not run the product installer directly. IBM® does not support installations performed in this way.

Console mode

Open a command prompt and from the directory where you downloaded the IBM® software, run the IBM_EMM_Installer executable file as follows.

On Windows™, run the IBM_EMM_Installer executable file with -i console. For example:

IBM_EMM_Installer_N.N.N.N_OS -i console

On UNIX™, run the IBM_EMM_Installer_N.N.N.N.sh file with no switch.

Windows™ GUI or UNIX™ X-windows mode

Run the IBM_EMM_Installer file. On UNIX™, use the .bin file.

Unattended mode

Open a command prompt and from the directory where you downloaded the IBM® software, run the IBM_EMM_Installer executable file with -i silent. On UNIX™, use the .bin file.

To specify a response file located in the same directory as the installer. For example:

IBM_EMM_Installer_N.N.N.N_OS -i silent

To specify a response file in a different directory, use -f filepath/filename. Use a fully qualified path. For example:

IBM_EMM_Installer_N.N.N.N_OS -i silent -f filepath/filename

For more information about unattended mode, see Installing multiple times using unattended mode.