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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

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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.

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  • It worked both ways :) Thanks...however what is this command doing ? export DISPLAY=:0 ...i googled for it but still not very clear ...
    – Cris
    Sep 8, 2012 at 7:08
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    It is a shell environment variable which is being set and made available to future programs. The ":0" means the first screen+keyboard on the local computer. OS X does not use X11 by default or this variable would have been set transparently.
    – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
    Sep 8, 2012 at 7:17

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