{"id":730,"date":"2007-03-25T01:25:03","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T23:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rare-it.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/03\/25\/display-environment-variable-when-installing-oracle-as\/"},"modified":"2007-03-25T01:25:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T23:25:03","slug":"display-environment-variable-when-installing-oracle-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2007\/03\/display-environment-variable-when-installing-oracle-as\/","title":{"rendered":"DISPLAY environment variable when Installing Oracle AS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know how to set the DISPLAY variable. I know how to &#8220;export&#8221; the variable. And I did. Still when starting<\/p>\n<pre>runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs<\/pre>\n<p>the installer would barf on me with a:<\/p>\n<pre>java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError<\/pre>\n<p>and a big Java stacktrace. Googling around didn&#8217;t solve much. I tried installing (and removing) several old X-libs, and checked several other things, but nothing worked. Finally I opened up the install-manual (eeks), and went straight to the section of actually running the installer. It tells you about the DISPLAY variable, and how to check whether it works as specified. So I also gave the command:<\/p>\n<pre>xclock &<\/pre>\n<p>To my surprise, it returned an error: can&#8217;t open display. WTF? I double checked my environment variable and noticed I forgot the colon. Silly me. But silly installer as well. Why not give a reasonable equivalent of &#8220;can&#8217;t open display&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know how to set the DISPLAY variable. I know how to &#8220;export&#8221; the variable. And I did. Still when starting runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs the installer would barf on me with a: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError and a big Java stacktrace. Googling around didn&#8217;t solve much. I tried installing (and removing) several old X-libs, and checked several other things, <a href='https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2007\/03\/display-environment-variable-when-installing-oracle-as\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}