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A standalone installation of CCS v6.x plus the latest version of its modules

Peter John
Expert 1480 points

Hi there,

At my work we need to have strictly controlled versioning of and IDE/development environment.  Therefore so we have turned off automatic updating of the various CCS 6.x software modules.  The virgin installation came from here, but after we installed it we were prompted to update various modules.

How can I obtain/download a Standalone installation of CCS v6.x plus the latest version of its modules ?   If I can do that then I can store the installer packages away on a server for some future time when the IDE needs to be installed on another developer's machine.  

I don't want the modules to be downloaded by CCS over the internet after its installation because that way the versions of each module will depend entirely on what point in time they first install CCS and CCS attempts to download module versions dated later than that in the IDE release record.   If that happens the state of their IDE will not match the state at a prior point in time when the code base was frozen and the IDE version locked down..

regards

Peter

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    TI__Guru**** 173310 points

    Peter,

    It is possible to download standalone installers for CCS as well as other components such as SYS/BIOS, TI-RTOS, Compiler tools etc.

    From the CCS download page you mentioned, you can get the off-line installer for CCS. Standalone installers for SYS/BIOS are here, and installers for the Compiler tools are here. Some updates, like the CCS Service updates can only be updated directly from CCS. There are no standalone installers for those But if you have automatic updating turned off, and you control which updates you take, then you can keep track of those updates and versions and should be able to save off installers for most of them.

  • 0 in reply to AartiG
    Expert 1480 points

    AartiG said:
    There are no standalone installers for those But if you have automatic updating turned off, and you control which updates you take, then you can keep track of those updates and versions and should be able to save off installers for most of them.

    Thanks AartiG.  Do you mean when I permit a service update that I will be first be prompted to save the update's installer locally ?  My experience was that once I permitted each update to be applied that CCS applied these updates behind the scenes not prompting me to save each or any individual installer.

    regards

    Peter

  • 0 in reply to Peter John
    TI__Guru**** 173310 points

    Well, what I meant earlier was that installers for things like the Compiler tools, SYS/BIOS etc can be downloaded and saved off separately from CCS from the links I sent earlier, if that is desired.

    But if you are looking to get updates from within CCS, most installers will still get downloaded as part of the update process and then they actually run only when you restart CCS. When you go to Help->Check for Updates, select updates and go through the installation, the first part is that it gets downloaded (into the \ccsv6\eclipse\downloads folder) , and then the second part is the actual installation that happens after restarting CCS. So you could start the update process, and when prompted to "restart CCS", make sure to save or copy all files in the \downloads folder before saying "restart CCS". The files can then be copied over to the \downloads folder of another user and when they restart CCS, it should automatically start their update installer and install all those saved updates.

    So you could have one machine connected to the internet and use it to obtain updates, then copy them over to other machines.

    Now, for a service pack installation (CCS service update) the initial download will only be the web installer and not all the child installers, as those get downloaded and executed as the web installer runs. So to download the service pack update you really need to download the full CCS install image. However, for most other updates, the above method should work 

  • 0 in reply to AartiG
    Expert 1480 points
    Thanks AartiG. What you write makes sense and I will try that out at some point to align and archive the states of our development systems.