If you are using v3, you can simply take and unzip the zip distribution
file - it doesn't get much simpler than that...
glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
>Silent installation is really inconvenient, which is a pain considering that a typical server is a headless machine without GUI:
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>- For V3, it's very hard not to get confused because of tons of outdated information (such as running ant -f setup.xml and the like).
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>- One has to launch the graphical installer for generating a [i]trivial[/i] configuration file (with 28 properties, most of them really unnecessary).
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>- The graphical installer checks installation requirements such as write permissions and available ports [i]on the (GUI-)machine where the answer file is generated[/i], which is completely irrelevant for the target machine. For example, if I do not have root permissions on the GUI-machine, then I won't be able to generate an answer file for an installation into /opt, even if I have root permissions on the target machine.
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>The whole procedure is dramatically inferior compared to common server administration tasks. For example, on Debian-based GNU/Linux systems one can install databases, web-servers, SSH-daemons etc. with single simple commands such as
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>apt-get install apache2
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>and tweak the configuration afterwards.
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