{"id":3101,"date":"2010-02-13T20:54:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T20:54:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:54:42","slug":"things-i-do-on-a-saturday-evening-installing-was-ce-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=3101","title":{"rendered":"Things I do on a Saturday evening: Installing WAS CE on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent about an hour or so in total this evening installing <a href=\"http:\/\/www-01.ibm.com\/software\/webservers\/appserv\/community\/\">WebSphere Community Edition<\/a> on my own laptop where I run Ubuntu 9.10. Needed an application server to deploy the web applications I create when trying to teach myself how to do Java development. The first try was to install Tomcat 6, which was quite easy using the package manager. But after I had done some thinking I turned to WAS CE instead, why not, since WebSphere is the product I know best (beeing well aware of the fact that under the hood in WAS CE, you will, among <a href=\"http:\/\/publib.boulder.ibm.com\/wasce\/V2.1.0\/en\/open-source.html\">various open source projects, find Tomcat as well<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>The installation was quite easy, just followed the <a href=\"http:\/\/publib.boulder.ibm.com\/wasce\/V2.1.0\/en\/quick-start.html\">Quick Start-guide<\/a> combined with the <a href=\"http:\/\/publib.boulder.ibm.com\/wasce\/V2.1.0\/en\/setup-troubleshooting.html#Setuptroubleshooting-InstallingonUbuntu\">Setup Troubleshooting<\/a> (Prerequisites for Ubuntu, read this one first!!). After that I just had some issues with getting WAS CE to understand where to find the correct Java installation, but this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberciti.biz\/faq\/linux-unix-set-java_home-path-variable\/\">guide saved me<\/a> combined with me just realizing that I have to run it as root. Guess I could avoid that, but who cares, it is my own laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, this is the admin console, so the next step will be to deploy applications from Eclipse, but that will be another day&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2010\/02\/was_ce_adminconsole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2010\/02\/was_ce_adminconsole.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>@Update: Not a problem at all to get rid of the root:root <\/p>\n<p>> su<br \/>\n> cd \/opt<br \/>\n> chown -R myuser:mygroup IBM\/<br \/>\n> exit<br \/>\n> cd IBM\/WebSphere\/CeAppServer\/bin<br \/>\n> .\/start-server.sh<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;server started&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent about an hour or so in total this evening installing WebSphere Community Edition on my own laptop where I run Ubuntu 9.10. Needed an application server to deploy the web applications I create when trying to teach myself how to do Java development. The first try was to install Tomcat 6, which was quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14502,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions\/14502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}