Java Buzz Forum - Installing WebSphere Community Edition on Mac OS X revisited

Almost two years back, Olexiy Prokhorenko blogged in his SILENT WORDS blog about how to put WAS CE on Mac OS X (PowerPC).
Not all that much has changed since then. However, after downloading the WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 2.0 are the updated steps I took, to get it installed on Mac OS X 10.5.2:

In the terminal:


cd ~/Downloads

chmod 777 ./wasce_setup-2.0.0.2-unix.bin

./wasce_setup-2.0.0.2-unix.bin -is:extract -is:log wasce_extract.log

This creates 8 files in a temporary sub folder like this: ~/Downloads/istemp846105124847. However, the name of your temporary folder may be very different.


TMPINST=~/Downloads/istemp846105124847

export TMPINST
 
java -cp .:$TMPINST/setup.jar: 
-Dtemp.dir="tmp" 
-Dis.jvm.home="/Library/Java/Home" 
-Dis.jvm.temp="0" 
-Dis.media.home="$TMPINST/setup.jar" 
-Dis.launcher.file="wasce_setup-2.0.0.2-unix.bin" 
-Dis.external.home="." run 1>>wasce_install.log 2>>wasce_errs.log

This will launch the WebSphere Application Server install appliaction and look something like this:


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