Start Packaging Utility in wizard mode

You can start Packaging Utility manually or run Packaging Utility in a different language.

Start Packaging Utility in wizard mode from a command line

About this task

Use the command line to start Packaging Utility in wizard mode

Procedure

  1. Open a command-line utility.
  2. Open the installation directory for Packaging Utility.
    Table 1. Default installation directory for Packaging Utility
    Operating system Administrator Nonadministrator Group
    Windows XP Professional C:\Program Files\IBM\Packaging Utility C:\Documents and Settings\user\IBM\Packaging Utility Not available
    Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 2012 C:\Program Files [(x86)]\IBM\Packaging Utility C:\Users\user\IBM\Packaging Utility Not available
    Linux and UNIX /opt/IBM/PackagingUtility /user_home_directory/IBM/PackagingUtility /user_home_directory/IBM/PackagingUtility_Group
    OS X operating system /Applications/IBM/PackagingUtility /Users/user_home_directory/IBM/PackagingUtility /Users/user_home_directory/PackagingUtility_Group
  3. Run the command to start Packaging Utility:
    • Windows: IBMPU
    • Linux, UNIX, and OS X operating system: ./IBMPU

Starting Packaging Utility in another language

From the command line, you can start Packaging Utility by specifying a language.

About this task

The following list contains the languages and the language codes that are currently supported by Packaging Utility:
  • Arabic (ar)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
  • Catalan (ca)
  • Croatian (hr)
  • Czech (cs)
  • Danish (da)
  • Dutch (nl)
  • English (en)
  • Finnish (fi)
  • French (fr)
  • German (de)
  • Greek (el)
  • Hebrew (iw)
  • Hungarian (hu)
  • Indonesian (in)
  • Italian (it)
  • Japanese (ja)
  • Korean (ko)
  • Lithuanian (lt)
  • Norwegian (no)
  • Portuguese (pt)
  • Polish (pl)
  • Russian (ru)
  • Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
  • Slovak (sk)
  • Slovenian (sl)
  • Spanish (es)
  • Swedish (sv)
  • Thai (th)
  • Traditional Chinese (zh_HK)
  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) (zh_TW)
  • Turkish (tr)
Note: Some languages support only partial translations. When a language is partially translated, the non-translated content is presented in English.

Procedure

  1. Open a command-line utility.
  2. Open the directory that is appropriate for your operating system:
    • Windows: install_dir\IBM\Packaging Utility
    • Linux and UNIX: install_dir/IBM/PackagingUtility
  3. Run the command to start Packaging Utility with the -nl option and abbreviated language code. Packaging Utility opens in the language that you specified.

Example

Table 2. Start commands by operating system
Operating system  
Windows IBMPU -nl language_code
Linux, UNIX, and OS X operating system ./IBMPU -nl language_code

Starting Packaging Utility with the -secureStorageFile option

About this task

You can start Packaging Utility with the -secureStorageFile and -masterPasswordFile options. The credentials that you use for this instance of Packaging Utility are stored in the secure storage file. For information about these options, see Command-line arguments for the pucl command.

Procedure

  1. Open a command-line utility.
  2. Open the directory that is appropriate for your operating system:
    • Windows: install_dir\IBM\Packaging Utility
    • Linux and UNIX: install_dir/IBM/PackagingUtility
  3. Run the command to start Packaging Utility with the -secureStorageFile and -masterPasswordFile options.

Example

Table 3. Start commands that use the -secureStorageFile option
Operating system Command
Windows IBMPU -secureStorageFile storage_file -masterPasswordFile master_password_file
Linux, UNIX, and the OS X operating system ./IBMPU -secureStorageFile storage_file -masterPasswordFile master_password_file

What to do next

When you store credentials for a repository, the credentials are saved to the secure storage file.
Note: Starting in version 1.7, if you do not specify the -secureStorageFile and -masterPasswordFile options, Installation Manager uses the Equinox Secure Storage mechanism from Eclipse by default to store credentials and generate a default storage file that is secured with a predefined password. In older versions, a key ring file was used to store the credentials by default. The key ring file is not supported with version 1.6.2 and later.
Note: After you upgrade to version 1.7 or later, you cannot authenticate with secure storage files that were created in an earlier version. You must re-create those secure storage files.

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