Use Rational® Product Updater to
locate and install product updates and optional new features for installed Rational software
development products.
Prerequisites:- By default, Internet access is required but you can change the preferences
for Product
Updater to retrieve
updates from a local update site instead. See Changing the update sites preference for
more information.
- If you are in an environment where a proxy server is used to filter HTTP
requests, you may need to configure Product
Updater to
use your proxy server to connect to the Internet. See Configuring Rational Product Updater to use a proxy server for
more information.
- If you disabled any product features in the Rational Software Development Platform
by using the configuration manager (), or by modifying feature.xml files, you must re-enable them
before installing product updates.
To find and install product updates:
- Log on to your system with the same user account
used to install your Rational software development product.
Restriction: On Windows® operating
systems, this account requires Administrator privileges. On Linux® operating
systems, you must use the root user account.
- Start Rational Product Updater:
- On Windows operating systems, click .
- On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0, open the main menu and click .
- On SuSE Linux Enterprise
Server 9.0 (GNOME desktop environment), open the main menu and click .
- On SuSE Linux Enterprise
Server 9.0 (K Desktop Environment), open the main menu and click .
An inventory of installed products is displayed.
- To search for available updates, click the Find Updates button.
To search for new optional features, click the Find Optional Features button.
(The same results are achieved when you first click the Updates tab
or the Optional Features tab, respectively.) A progress
indicator tells shows update sites are being searched.
- If updates are found for the Product Updater itself, you
are prompted to confirm that you want to proceed with installing the updates.
Click OK to proceed. The tool automatically stops,
restarts, and resumes the requested search. If you click Cancel,
the tool cannot search for new updates or optional new features.
- For product updates:
- The Updates page shows the type and number of available updates
for each installed product or feature. You can click on each update to display
its description and detailed information. Review the detailed information
before installing the update.
- Recommended updates are selected by default. Corequisite updates
are automatically selected and deselected together. If you change any selections,
you can restore the default by clicking the Set Recommended button.
- Click Install Updates to install the
selected list of updates.
- For optional features:
- The Optional Features page shows the name and version of any
new optional features that are available.
- Before installing any new feature, click on its name to review
the detailed information.
- Select the list of features you want to install. You will receive
a warning message if there are product updates that must be installed prior
to installing a feature.
- Click Install Features to install the
optional features you have selected.
- If there is special information for any items that you have selected,
a Notices dialog box opens. (For example, for a very large update there may
be a notice recommending that you download a ZIP file of the update and use Rational Product Updater to install the update
from the ZIP file.) Review the notice information and click Continue to
close the dialog box and proceed.
If you have selected multiple
items to install, you may need to review multiple notices. Click each update
listed in the top pane of the dialog box to display its notice in the lower
pane. After you have reviewed all of the notices, click Continue to
close the dialog box and proceed.
- If the Rational Software Development Platform is running,
you may be prompted to stop it. After stopping the Rational Software Development Platform,
return to the Product
Updater tool
and again click Install Updates or Install
Features.
You may be prompted to stop the Rational Software
Development Platform when it is not running. This can happen if it was
stopped abnormally. If this happens, restart the Rational Software Development Platform
and stop it normally. See Handling messages to stop the Rational Software Development Platform when it is not running for more
information.
- A dialog box shows the license agreement for the product updates
or optional features that you have selected. Once you have read and accepted
the license agreement, click OK to begin the installation.
If you selected more than one item to install, you may need to accept
more than one license agreement before the installation begins.
Depending
on the speed of your computer processor, the amount of RAM, and the speed
of your Internet connection, the update might take an extended period of time
to download and install.
When the installation is finished, the progress indicator closes and
a message confirming the success of the operation appears in the top pane
of Product
Updater. The product
updates or optional features that you installed are removed from their respective
pages and are added to the Installed Products page. Because fix packs are
cumulative, only the highest fix pack level is shown. Interim fixes, if any,
are listed below the product or feature to which they apply.