TN0023: Installing Rational Team Concert with IBM Rational Application Developer version 7.5 Open Beta RC0

Last Updated: August 7, 2008
Author: James Stuckey

Summary

This document explains how to install the IBM Rational Team Concert client together with IBM Rational Application Developer version 7.5 Open Beta RC0 using the IBM Installation Manager. Installing in this manner is often referred to as “shell-sharing”, where the applications become integrated into a single integrated development environment (IDE).

More Information

To install the 7.5 Open Beta RC0 version of Rational Application Developer, IBM Installation Manager version 1.2.0 or higher is required. At the time of publication, Installation Manager Version 1.2.0 is still in development and is available only as a limited beta version bundled with the Rational Application Developer Open Beta RC0 offering. In order to provide isolation between the Rational Application Developer beta and your other products installed with the IBM Installation Manager, the beta version of the Installation Manager that the Rational Application Developer beta includes is installed into its own separate location and manages the product offerings that it installs independently from those installed by any released (GA) version of the Installation Manager.

As a result, in order to install Rational Team Concert together with Rational Application Developer you will need to first install Rational Application Developer along with the required beta version of the Installation Manager. If you have already installed Rational Team Concert, you will need to install a new instance using the beta Installation Manager in order to shell-share with Rational Application Developer.

After Rational Application Developer and the beta Installation Manager are installed, you can use the following steps to install the Rational Team Concert client together with Rational Application Developer:
  1. If you are planning to install Rational Team Concert from a ‘Local Install’ Installation Manager download, or using physical media for Rational Team Concert, you will first want to extract the download into a location of your choice or mount the DVD. If you intend to install via the internet, you will need a jazz.net account to access the installation manager repository.
  2. Start the beta Installation Manager from its shortcut. By default, this can be found under your applications shortcut menu in a group called ‘IBM Installation Manager RADBeta’. If an instance of the Installation Manager is already running, you can distinguish the beta by the name in the title bar (which will contain ‘(Beta=RADBeta)’) or by clicking Help > About (the beta IM will have a 1.2.X version).
  3. Click File > Preferences and select Repositories.
  4. Click the Add Repository button. At this point, the repository location you should enter depends upon the particular media you are using to install the Rational Team Concert client:
    1. If you are installing from physical media such as a DVD or from one of the Installation Manager ‘Local Install’ downloads, use the Browse button to browse to the root of the DVD or the ‘rtc’ directory of the extracted download file and click the OK button to add the new location.
    2. Alternatively, if you wish to install via the internet, enter the following URL into the Add Repository dialog:
      https://jazz.net/downloads/RationalTeamConcert/1.0/1.0/install-repository/parts/common
      You may be prompted to provide your jazz.net credentials to access this remote location.
  5. Click OK to close the preferences dialog.
  6. At this point you are ready to begin installing the Rational Team Concert client. Click the Install button, select the Rational Team Concert – Client offering from the list, and click Next.
  7. On the next page, select the Use the existing package group check box and select the package group into which your Rational Application Developer Beta product was installed (If you have not installed anything else using this beta installation manager it will be the only one in the list).
  8. Click Next and follow the rest of the prompts in the wizard to complete the installation.

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