You can uninstall WebSphere® Application
Server Liberty Network
Deployment using
Installation Manager response files.
About this task
Using Installation Manager, you can work with response
files to uninstall the product in a variety of ways. You can record
a response file using the GUI as described in the following procedure,
or you can generate a new response file by hand or by taking an example
and modifying it.
Procedure
- Stop all servers and applications on the WebSphere Application Server Liberty Network
Deployment installation.
- Optional: Record a response file to uninstall
the product: On one of your systems, perform the following actions
to record a response file that will uninstall the product:
- From a command line, change to the eclipse subdirectory
in the directory where you installed Installation Manager.
- Start Installation Manager from the command line using
the -record option.
Tip: If you choose to use the -skipInstall parameter
with a temporary installation registry created as described in
Before
you begin, Installation Manager uses the temporary installation
registry while recording the response file. It is important to note
that when the -skipInstall parameter is specified, no product packages
are installed or uninstalled. All of the actions that you perform
in Installation Manager simply update the installation data that is
stored in the specified temporary registry. After the response file
is generated, it can be used to uninstall the product, removing the
product files and updating the standard installation registry.
The
-skipInstall operation should not be used on the actual agent data
location used by Installation Manager. This is unsupported. Use a
clean writable location, and reuse that location for future recording
sessions.
For more information, read the IBM® Installation
Manager Information Center.
- Click Uninstall.
- In the Uninstall Packages window,
perform the following actions.
- Select IBM WebSphere Application Server
Liberty Network Deployment and
the appropriate version.
Note: If you are uninstalling the trial version
of this offering, select IBM WebSphere Application Server
Liberty Network Deployment Trial and the appropriate version.
- Click Next.
- Review the summary information.
- Click Uninstall.
- If the uninstallation is successful, the program displays a message
that indicates success.
- If the uninstallation is not successful, click View log to
troubleshoot the problem.
- Click Finish.
- Click File > Exit to close
Installation Manager.
- Use the response file to uninstall the product: From
a command line on each of the systems from which you want to uninstall
the product, change to the eclipse/tools subdirectory
in the directory where you installed Installation Manager and use
the response file that you created to uninstall the product.
Go to the IBM Installation
Manager Information Center for more information.
- Optional: List all installed packages to verify
the uninstallation.
./imcl listInstalledPackages
imcl listInstalledPackages
- Optional: Uninstall IBM Installation Manager.
Important: Before you can uninstall IBM Installation Manager, you must uninstall
all of the packages that were installed by Installation Manager.
Read
the IBM Installation
Manager Information Center for information about using the
uninstall script to perform this procedure.
Example
The following is an example of a response
file for uninstalling the product.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<agent-input clean='true' temporary='true'>
<uninstall modify='false'>
<offering id='com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85'
profile='WebSphere Liberty V8.5'/>
</uninstall>
<profile id='WebSphere Liberty V8.5'
installLocation='C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\Liberty'>
</profile>
</agent-input>
Tip: When you uninstall the IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Network
Deployment package,
you must uninstall all the packages under the same package group that
are extensions to the IBM WebSphere Application Server
Liberty Network
Deployment package.
IBM WebSphere SDK Java™ Technology
Edition Version 7.0 for Liberty is such an extension. To uninstall
the entire package group, simply remove the id attribute in the <offering
../> stanza (id='com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85' in
the previous example) from the response file. Installation Manager
will then uninstall all of the packages under the package group.