In this Grails Example, we will set up our development environment on a Linux system.
Video #6 shows how to install Grails and Java on Linux
Video #7 shows how to install Eclipse and the Grails extensions on Linux
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I tried this on 4 different ubuntu machines and ran into many problems along the way. On 10.10 the repo is no longer supported. On 12.04 among many problems the JAVA_HOME was NOT set, and after chatting on IRC, I was told that STS was buggy and not to use it at all, then I was told later that I needed STS… Ahh 2 days work, and 0 for 4 machines… I think I will go back to Perl::Dancer with JEdit…
Please be aware that the PPA seems to have stopped supporting Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid.
Thanks for catching that. I’m updating the install videos for Grails 2.2, and I’ll be sure to create a new Ubuntu virtual machine based on the latest release.
In my case, I already had the jdk intesllad and the error still occurred. To fix the problem I changed the Path environment variable and moved %JAVA_HOME%\bin to the beginning of the Path.
Nice video and helpful tutorial,
I am running ubuntu 12 and I want to install Grails using Sun JDK instead of OpenJDK, because some of other projects require Sun JDK and things don’t work well when I have Open JDK as default.
I have Sun JDK 1.7 installed already and working fine. Is there anyway to install grails from command-line using JDK 1.7?
Hi Mike,
Nice videos & tutorial. One little issue regarding the grails install on ubuntu, I had to additionally install openjdk-7-jdk on my 11.10 before the demo would run on a browser. sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
Best.
Sean:
That’s good to know. I always assumed that Ubuntu came with the JDK pre-installed. I’ll add that to the post.
Mike
Can you paste the output of set’ coamnmd somewhere(e.g. rafb.net/paste) and provide the link here? Open the coamnmd prompt and run the set coamnmd in it. I am pasting part of the output generated on my machine. Notice the paths set for JAVA_HOME, GROOVY_HOME, GRAILS_HOME and also the paths included in PATH variable.C:\> setALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramDataAPPDATA=C:\Users\tabrez\AppData\RoamingAPR_ICONV_PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\Subversion\CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_6)\Java\jre1.6.0_06\lib\ext\QTJava.zipCommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common FilesCommonProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)\CoCOMPUTERNAME=TABREZ-PCComSpec=C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exeDFSTRACINGON=FALSEFP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NOGRAILS_HOME=c:\grailsGROOVY_HOME=C:\groovyHOMEDRIVE=C:HOMEPATH=\Users\tabrezJAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_06[...]Path=c:\ruby\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Subversion\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\bin;C:\groovy\bin;c:\grails\bin;You can also try to see if proper version information is printed by running java -v, groovy -v and grails -v coamnmds. If all the paths are set properly, what error do you get when you try to create a grails application?
Colby:
Glad you are enjoying them. I am learning a lot as well by creating them.
Regards,
Mike