Issues to be Aware of when Running on Linux

If you are running on Linux, you should be aware of the following notes.

Note: If you want to run TIBCO Business Studio in "headless" mode on Linux for command line build and deploy, it is necessary to have the Xvfb service running as some of the underlying eclipse components require an X Window System running on *NX based operating systems.

The examples below are for Red Hat Linux (x86_64). You can tailor these steps to your own installation.

In text terminal mode (a default Red Hat 6 runlevel 3 for example) you can use Xvfb to run X Window Virtual Frame Buffer:

  1. Install the Virtual Frame Buffer package for X11 if it is not already installed. If this is not available in the base repository of Red Hat you should enable one of Red Hat specific package repositories.

    yum install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb.x86_64

  2. export DISPLAY=:1
  3. xvfb-run <your ant script

    Or alternatively:

  4. yum install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb.x86_64
  5. export DISPLAY=:1
  6. Xvfb :1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
  7. ....<run your ant script

The other solution is simply to start the X Window server.