How do install glassfish on ubuntu server 12.x?

Does anyone know how to install Glassfish on ubuntu server? is there some kind of command line that does it seeing as ubuntu server has no UI so to speak?

For example, if I wish to install mysql I simply run this

sudo apt-get install php5-mysql

anything similar ie sudo apt-get install glassfish?

4 Answers

According to: it will be

sudo apt-get install glassfish-appserv

(all the other packages might be of interest too)

This will not be the latest version. If you want that you need to use the install script found here:

maybe this here helps:

the tutorial gives you a lot og details and it helped me a lot.

I just got all this working on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04, a headless system running on AWS:

1. Install Oracle Java 7 if required:

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
   java –version

2. Install Glassfish Enterprise v3 (in this case, it will be installed under /opt/glassfishv3)

   apt-get install xterm
   cd /opt
   wget
   apt-get install unzip
   unzip glassfish-v3.zip
   rm glassfish-v3.zip

3. Install script to start/stop GlassFish (see #5 for contents of script)

   chmod +x /etc/init.d/glassfish
   update-rc.d glassfish defaults
   apt-get install chkconfig
   chkconfig –list GlassFish

4. Start GlassFish

   /etc/init.d/glassfish start

5. Contents of glassfish script:

   GLASSFISH_HOME=${GLASSFISH_HOME:-"/opt/glassfishv3/glassfish"}
   case "$1" in
   start)
   $GLASSFISH_HOME/bin/asadmin start-domain >/dev/null ;;
   stop) $GLASSFISH_HOME/bin/asadmin stop-domain >/dev/null ;;
   restart) $GLASSFISH_HOME/bin/asadmin restart-domain >/dev/null ;;
   \*) echo "usage: $0 (start|stop|restart|help)"
   esac

Download Netbeans Java EE from

That comes with Glassfish included.