Identifying which package is associated with a particular WebSphere Application Server install on Solaris
 Technote (FAQ)
 
Problem
You can have multiple instances of the WebSphere® Application Server installed on your machine. If, for some reason, you need to manually uninstall a particular instance, it might not be immediately obvious which of the various unique package instances is associated with the individual Application Server instance you want to uninstall.
 
Cause
With multiple instances of WebSphere Application Server installed on a Solaris machine, all of the packages installed as part of the Application Server will have unique package names.
 
Solution
On Solaris, you can use the following command to generate a list of installed packages. This list includes information about the base directory with which each package is associated.

pkginfo -l >pkginfo.out

Use your favorite editor (for example: vi) to open this file. Locate the package name associated with the Application Server. For example: ISWSBJD9A

On this particular machine, you will see the following:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
  PKGINST:  ISWSBJD9A
     NAME:  javaCommonConfigComponent
 CATEGORY:  application
     ARCH:  sparc
  VERSION:  1.3..1.DSP=
  BASEDIR:  /opt/WebSphere51/AppServer
   VENDOR:
   STATUS:  completely installed

  PKGINST:  ISWSBJD9A.2
     NAME:  javaCommonConfigComponent
 CATEGORY:  application
     ARCH:  sparc
  VERSION:  1.3..1.DSP=
  BASEDIR:  /opt/WebSphere/DeploymentManager
   VENDOR:
   STATUS:  completely installed

  PKGINST:  ISWSBJD9A.3
     NAME:  javaCommonConfigComponent
 CATEGORY:  application
     ARCH:  sparc
  VERSION:  1.3..1.DSP=
  BASEDIR:  /opt/JccSphere/AppServer
   VENDOR:
   STATUS:  completely installed
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Use the BASEDIR value to determine which of these package instances (for example: PKGINST values) need to be removed. All of the package instances will have the same BASEDIR value. Locate, and remove these packages.

Question:
Is the PKGINST code for WebSphere Application Server always ISWSBJD9A?

Answer:
Do not assume that this will always be the case. It is quite reasonable to presume that different versions of the product might very well change the package instance name. This is why you should use the value of BASEDIR to determine all of the unique package names to be removed.
 
Related information
Manual 5.0 Solaris uninstall
Manual 5.1 Solaris uninstall
 
 


Document Information


Product categories: Software > Application Servers > Distributed Application & Web Servers > WebSphere Application Server > Install
Operating system(s): Solaris
Software version: 6.0
Software edition:
Reference #: 1177686
IBM Group: Software Group
Modified date: Jul 1, 2005