Read the following topics.
Consider the various methods that you can use to run Installation Manager.
Every product is packaged and delivered differently. You can download the installation kit for a product or you can obtain product disks that contain an installation kit.
Every product is packaged and delivered differently. Some products provide a master setup disk, a prepackaged collection of offerings that is contained on a single disk. The master setup disk, which contains a table of contents that lists the offerings that are included on the disk, references other disk sets to install multiple offerings. You cannot add offerings to the prepackaged master setup disk. However, you can omit offerings by not downloading and extracting them.
Some Installation Manager features might or might not be supported by packages.
Learn how to install or update Installation Manager.
When you install packages with Installation Manager, you must choose an installation location and a directory for shared resources.
Some characters cannot be used in a path when you install Installation Manager.
When you have an Internet connection, you can add multiple documentation centers and searchable websites to a list for searching. When you enter a search term, all of the locations are searched at the same time from within your Installation Manager local help.
Data is provided during an install, update, modify, roll back, or uninstall process that must be protected.
You can use Installation Manager in administrator mode, nonadministrator mode, or group mode.
On Linux, UNIX, IBM z™/OS , and the OS X platforms, users can share packages in a common location and manage the packages with the same instance ofInstallation Manager by using group mode.
You can back up Installation Manager by using operating system functions, or by using a backup tool.