# Vision Client Install - ubuntu 20.04 LTS (headless server) Issue

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-client-install-ubuntu-20-04-lts-headless-server-issue/64320>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, vision\
**Created:** [September 21, 2022, 10:12am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-client-install-ubuntu-20-04-lts-headless-server-issue/64320 "2022-09-21T10:12:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ben\_Lindner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ben\_Lindner](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ben_Lindner)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 10:12am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-client-install-ubuntu-20-04-lts-headless-server-issue/64320/1 "2022-09-21T10:12:35Z")

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Hello all,

I by no means proclaim to be an expert at Linux but know enough to have gotten this fare. I’m experimenting with getting a vision client launching on a miniature industrial PC that will display a client. Im using Ignition 8.1. Its a headless server, all commands no GUI.

I have installed an ignition gateway on the machine and that went well, its configured an working but when i try to run visionclientlauncher.sh nothing happens.

On my linux machine I created a folder called called ignition. home/user/ignition. I went onto my windows machine and downloaded the tar.gz for Linux vision client. Copied from USB and placed in the ignition folder.

On the linux machine i extracted the tar and was left with the folder “visionclientlauncher”.

I looked at this [Deploying Vision Client Launchers - Ignition User Manual 8.0 - Ignition Documentation](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/Deploying+Vision+Client+Launchers)

Not 100% sure on deploying a remote linux client but i just followed the windows instruction but swapped the .exe for a .sn file. I created a client in windows that works and connects to my SCADA network and called it “Menz”

inside the linux folder /visionclientlauncher/app i pasted the jre folder and menz.json. I did the chmod command to make it an executable but when i give either command

./visionclientlauncher.sh  
or  
./visionclientlauncher.sh application=Menz window.mode = fullscreen screen = 0  
or  
./visionclientlauncher.sh application=Menz

It just does nothing. Just moves to the next command line, no errors When i use the command ls i do see the visionclientlauncher.sh file in the directory.

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-client-install-ubuntu-20-04-lts-headless-server-issue/64320/2 "2022-09-21T13:39:46Z")

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> [@Ben\_Lindner](#):
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> What am i doing wrong?

> [@Ben\_Lindner](#):
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> Its a headless server, all commands no GUI.

You need a GUI to run a client.