On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 14:30 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > anyone out there installed alfresco? i just gave it a shot and the > installation procedure definitely has some ambiguities, like when it > asks you if you already have openoffice installed and, if so, what > directory it's in. what directory? it's not *in* a single directory, > what does that question even mean? > > anyway, pointers to the recipe for fedora installation would do just > fine. thanks. I have previously installed it using the .war file and the existing tomcat that comes with F7. I only replaced the gcj with Sun's java. I also had to change a couple of paths in the webapps/alfresco directory so that it would write files to the proper place and also be consistent with the Fedora directory standards. If I recall, I changed a line regarding the log4j path and also changed the path for the repository files. I can lookup those changes if you have trouble locating them. As far as OpenOffice goes, it needs a startup script to launch in headless mode at system boot. If it is running, alfresco will detect it. I'm not sure what (if any) repercussions this has on a system running in full SELinux mode. It might be dangerous to have a process able to read and write files anywhere on the system. It must run as a user with similar permissions to the tomcat user, but with even more restrictions. It would be nice if there was a rpm package for Alfresco. I might try my hand at making one once F8 is released with OpenJDK. I've never tried making a Java rpm before, so I am not sure how successful I will be. Alfresco is a fantastic product that should be easily installable on Fedora. I can't wait to see what else they have planned for the program over the next few years. RedHat should buy these guys. It would be a powerful combo to have a RHEL install come with JBoss and Alfresco. ...Jeff
