Rational® Product Updater can
remove from your system any files that become outdated after you install a
new update.
When the Product
Updater tool
installs an update, previous versions of the superseded files are not overwritten;
they remain on your file system. This is required in order for Product
Updater to
be able to roll back the update. However, this also means that disk space
is used to store both the new and previous versions of files.
To reduce
the disk space used by the installed products, you can purge their outdated
files using the Product
Updater's Clean
Up function.
Important: If you run Clean
Up, you will not be able to roll back any of the currently installed
updates for any of the installed products.
To cleanup outdated files:
- 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.
- Click Clean Up.
- A dialog box warns you that you cannot roll back any of the currently
installed updates after cleaning up. Click Continue.
When the cleanup completes, a message confirming the success of the
operation appears in the top pane of the Product
Updater window.
The Clean Up button is disabled, and on Rollbacks page,
rollback will be disabled for all updates and optional features.