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Install soapUI on Ubuntu 11.10

Introduction

This post describes how to install soapUI on Ubuntu 11.10 and solve potential issues with installation.

Installation

  1. Download linux version (soapui-4.0.1-linux-bin.zip file) of soapUI 4.0.1
  2. Unpack it to desired location
  3. Add execute permission to bin/soapui.sh file: chmod +x bin/soapui.sh
  4. Run soapUI ./soapui.sh

Troubleshooting

If you get following exception after running and your application closes:

#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f6490c0a5f1, pid=28611, tid=140070162761472
#
# JRE version: 6.0_29-b11
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (20.4-b02 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [libgconf-2.so.4+0x175f1]  __float128+0xc01
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#

add -Dsoapui.jxbrowser.disable=true flag when executing soapUI.

In order to do so edit soapui.sh file and add the following line:

JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dsoapui.jxbrowser.disable=true"

Enjoy soapUI running.

This was written by Joanna Muras. Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2012, at 9:35 am. Filed under Java, linux. Tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

4 Comments

  1. Pere Villega wrote:

    Soap?? REST all the way, baby! ;)

    Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 10:09 am | Permalink
  2. Tomasz Muras wrote:

    REST?! Sockets all the way! ;)

    Friday, January 27, 2012 at 9:50 am | Permalink
  3. sef wrote:

    Just won’t work. When i run the file i get the option to run or run in terminal. Neither do anything at all.

    Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 11:23 pm | Permalink
  4. German Giunta wrote:

    Thanks Joanna, I had this issue and this fixed it. First I added that line to the end of soapui.sh and did not work, but then I appended it at the end of the before-last if statement, and it worked.

    Friday, February 10, 2012 at 4:07 pm | Permalink

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