IBM Rational Manual Tester Fix Pack 6.1.1.1 - Installation instructions

For Rational Manual Tester, Version 6.1

Contents

1.0 Overview

This document describes how to install IBM^® Rational^® Manual Tester Fix Pack 6.1.1.1 by using IBM Rational Product Updater. This fix pack is provided as an update. You should use Rational Product Updater to install this fix pack directly from the IBM update server; however, you can also download a ZIP file that contains this fix pack and then use Rational Product Updater to perform local installations. The following sections describe how to install this fix pack.

2.0 Installation prerequisites

Before you can install this fix pack, you must install IBM Rational Product Updater 6.0.1. In Rational Product Updater, if you use the default update site preferences, IBM Rational Product Updater 6.0.1 is automatically installed when you search for updates or optional features. However, if you change the default update site preferences by clicking Preferences > Update Sites, you must restore the default settings before you can install the fix pack.

If you disabled any product features by modifying the feature.xml files or through the Update Manager by clicking Help > Software Updates > Manage Configuration, you must enable them before you install this fix pack.

3.0 Installing the fix pack

Install the fix pack with the same user account that installed the product.

Restrictions:

• The product cannot be open when you install this fix pack.
• On Windows^® operating systems, you must use an account with Administrator privileges.

To install the fix pack directly from the IBM update server, complete the following steps:

1. Start Rational Product Updater and click Start > Programs > IBM Rational > Rational Product Updater.
2. Click Find Updates.


If Rational Product Updater requires an update, you are prompted to install it before you can continue. Click OK. Rational Product Updater installs the update, restarts, and retrieves a list of available updates.


3. By default, all available updates are selected. Ensure that you select IBM Rational Manual Tester 6.1.1.1.
4. Click Install Updates.
5. To accept the license agreement and continue the installation, click OK.


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.

After the installation is complete, Rational Product Updater lists the installed updates on the Installed Products page.


6. Close Rational Product Updater.

4.0 Downloading the fix pack for local installations

You should install the fix pack directly from the IBM update server as described above; however, it is also available for download. You might want to download and install the fix pack in the following situations:

• You have a slow or unstable Internet connection and want to use a download manager that can resume the download.
• You have difficulty accessing the live IBM update servers from behind a firewall.
• You prefer to download the fix pack and install it later.

To download and install the fix pack, complete the following steps:

1. Download the fix pack from ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/rationalsdp/rmt/61/zips/rmt61_fixpack6111.zip.
2. Extract the fix pack to a temporary directory, such as C:\temp.
3. For installation instructions, navigate to C:\temp\rmt\ and open install_local_6111.html.

5.0 Installing product updates from a command line

You can install product updates, such as interim fixes, fix packs, and refresh packs, from a command line so that you do not have to monitor or input information during the installation.

For more information about installing product updates from a command line, see Running Rational Product Updater from a command line in the product updater help.

6.0 Creating a local mirror of the update server

You might want to create a local mirror of the update server in the following situations:

• You administer a set of product installations and want to control which updates are available to users.
• You administer a set of product installations that do not have direct access to the Internet.

For instructions on how to create a local mirror of the Rational Manual Tester update server, visit www3.software.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rationalsdp/rmt/61/local_mirror/6111/local_mirror.html.

7.0 Uninstalling the fix pack

Uninstall the fix pack with the same user account that installed the product.

Restrictions:

• The product cannot be open when you uninstall the fix pack.
• On Windows operating systems, you must use an account with Administrator privileges.
• If more than one product based on the Rational Software Development Platform is installed, you cannot roll back this fix pack.

Note: If you installed Rational Manual Tester Fix Pack 6.1.0.1 before installing this fix pack, when you uninstall this fix pack you will revert to Rational Manual Tester, Version 6.1.0.1. If you did not install the fix pack, when you uninstall this fix pack you will revert to Rational Manual Tester, Version 6.1.

To uninstall the fix pack, complete the following steps:

1. Start Rational Product Updater and click Start > Programs > IBM Rational > Rational Product Updater.
   
2. Click the Rollbacks tab. An inventory of installed product updates and features is displayed on the Rollbacks page.
3. Select IBM Rational Manual Tester 6.1.1.1.


Dependencies between updates are enforced automatically. If you select to roll back an update on which other installed updates depend, the dependent updates are also selected to roll back.


4. Click Roll Back Updates.
5. Close Rational Product Updater.

8.0 Customer support

For product news, events, support, and other information, see the Rational Manual Tester home page at www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/manual/index.html.