
So move the directories around so that you have just 3 directories: If you do a right-click > ‘Extract All’ on the zip file in Ubuntu, the extraction tool doesn’t like to overwrite directories of the same name, so you end up with directories called ‘RSA4WS’, ‘RSA4WS (2)’, ‘RSA4WS (3)’, and so on when actually, you want the contents of each of those directories to be in the same place. (NB this isn’t free software you have to buy it from IBM so I’m assuming you’ve got that far by now.)

rpm, life should be easy.Īnd indeed installing it is. This meant that I was installing not one but two pieces of software that are not officially supported for Ubuntu Karmic (or indeed for Ubuntu/Debian as far as I know). Not only that, but I wanted to install RSA for WebSphere, which includes WebSphere Application Server Test Environment (WAS). So I wanted to install Rational Software Architect (RSA an Eclipse-based piece of software) on to Ubuntu, which is what I run on my work machine, a Thinkpad T61p. The rest of this post is not about the UIG but about how to install and configure Rational Software Architect for WebSphere, which is relevant to anyone wanting to do this, regardless of whether they’re wanting to use the UIG.


You can find out more about what user modelling is and how you can use the UIG in RSA (lovin’ the IBM TLAs yet? 😉 ) in this series of articles on developerWorks. This week, I decided to install Rational Software Architect so that I could try out (again) the User Interface Generator which comes with IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server–and other products too, I believe.

I updated the bit about dash/bash on 23rd March after feedback from Gavin and Dom (see below).
