Before beginning the installation for IBM® Rational® Rhapsody®,
review the software requirements and the release notes for the hardware
and any additional prerequisites specific to the release.
Procedure
- To be able to install the product successfully,
you must have either administrator privileges for the machine on which
you are installing the product or know the credentials for an administrative
account. An administrative account can write to the Program Files
directory and the Windows registry. In the latter case, you can enter
the credentials for the administrative account during the installation
process for the product.
- Review Release notes for Rational Rhapsody.
- Determine the software prerequisites for
the product being installed based on information in the release notes.
- Identify any software that Rational Rhapsody integrates
with such as compilers, requirements management, and other add-on
software.
- Identify the edition of Rational Rhapsody you
want to install. For a description of each edition of the product,
see Rational Rhapsody editions.
For specific installation instructions, see Installing Rational Rhapsody.