Saturday, January 28, 2012

WebSphere on Ubunu

As I discovered trying to install the free version of WebSphere for developers (check it out here) Ubuntu uses the dash shell as its default instead of bash. I never noticed until I tried to use the WebSphere installer and it just hung forever for no good reason.

Fortunately someone else had the same problem, figured out and posted it on their blog. Just change the symlink to point to bash instead of dash and the the WebSphere install works just fine. Here's the blog post I am talking about:

http://www.pingudownunder.com/2009/09/10/getting-websphere-application-7-installed-on-ubuntu-9-04/