Install/Uninstall GlassFish on Linux

Uninstalling Glassfish V2 and installing Glassfish V3

Glassfish can be installed with the file-based installer or the JAR-based installer.
Uninstall instructions from SUN
Installtion instruction from SUN

Installing Glassfish

File-based

1. Download the file from
   
2. chmod +x sges-glassfish-v3-unix.sh
3. Create the installation directory: mkdir /usr/glassfish
4. Navigate to where sges-glassfish-v3-unix.sh file exists.
5. Run ./sges-glassfish-v3-unix.sh
6. Follow the instructions.
   

ZIP file installtion

1. Download the file from
   
2. Create the installation directory: mkdir /usr/glassfish
3. Unzip contents to installation directory: unzip sges-v3-unix.zip

JAR-based

Uninstalling Glassfish

File-based

1. Navigate to your Enterprise Server installation directory.

2. Invoke the uninstallation program as follows:

   • To use the uninstallation in GUI mode, type:

     ./uninstall

   • To use the uninstallation in command-line mode, type:

     ./uninstall -console

JAR-based and Zip

1. Change to the directory containing the glassfish directory.

2. Run the following command: rm —r glassfish.
   

Installing Apache Tomcat

1. Download the latest stable release of tomcat from the tomcat website.
2. Extract it to the required root directory. In our case it is /usr/tomcat/
• tar -xzf /apache-tomcat-6.0.20.tar.gz -C /usr/tomcat/
• NOTE: /usr/tomcat directory has to be created.
  
3. Create a symbolic from /usr/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.20 to latest. Commands shown below.
• cd /usr/tomcat
• ln -s apache-tomcat-6.0.20 latest
  
4. Add CATALINA_HOME = /usr/tomcat/latest to /etc/profiles.
5. Execute the following command after the changes to /etc/profiles has been made.
   
• source /etc/profiles