MacOS – Installing glassfish on Mountain Lion

javamacos

I downloaded glassfish-3.1.2.2-unix.sh from glassfish.java.net. To install I did

chmod +x glassfish-3.1.2.2-unix.sh 

then i tried to run it :

$ ./glassfish-3.1.2.2-unix.sh 
This program requires DISPLAY environment variable to be set.
Please re-run after assigning an appropriate value to DISPLAY.

Any idea ?

Thanks

Best Answer

The DISPLAY variable tells the X11 libraries where the X11 server is located.

Try

 export DISPLAY=:0

I do not believe the Unix installer supports installing OS X services, so unless you have very explicit needs at this time you can get along just with the zip-distribution of Glassfish. Unzip it and run asadmin start-domain.