Introduction
This post describes how to install soapUI on Ubuntu 11.10 and solve potential issues with installation.
Installation
- Download linux version (soapui-4.0.1-linux-bin.zip file) of soapUI 4.0.1
- Unpack it to desired location
- Add execute permission to
bin/soapui.sh
file:chmod +x bin/soapui.sh
- 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.