Problems installing Java EE SDK on Linux

Question

I installed the Java 6 JRE on my VPS just fine, but I can\'t get the EE SDK installation to even run.

root@vps [/usr/java]# java -version
java version \"1.6.         


        

Answer 1

I had the problem, however it was related to the sudo user account when executing the .sh file. I was installing Glassfish v3 on a new VPS hosted server with Ubuntu 10.4 64Bit OS.

sudo chmod +x java_ee_sdk-6u2-jdk-linux-x64.sh

sudo ./java_ee_sdk-6u2-jdk-linux-x64.sh -s -a java_ee_sdk-6u2-jdk-linux-x64-install-answers.txt

Only to get the exact same error you were first experiencing:

Could not locate a suitable jar utility.
Please ensure that you have Java 6 or newer installed on your system
and accessible in your PATH or by setting JAVA_HOME

Silly really, when I ran the command like this:

  ./java_ee_sdk-6u2-jdk-linux-x64.sh -s -a java_ee_sdk-6u2-jdk-linux-x64-install-answers.txt

To my suprise it responded with:

Welcome to GlassFish V3 installer

Using the user defined JAVA_HOME : /opt/jdk
Entering setup...

This was after I had setup my JAVA_HOME in file: /etc/bash.bashrc

JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk
export JAVA_HOME

PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
export PATH