On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 18:50 -0800, Jeff Gustafson wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 21:34 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > i may be misreading stuff badly, but i don't see how it's even > > *remotely* possible that alfresco, out of the box, is going to install > > on fedora 8. check out the "start_oo.sh" script that's installed and > > is invoked when you try to start alfresco: > > > I don't run the script. I get the war distribution called > 'alfresco-community-war-2.1.0.tar.gz'. It's located at: > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373&package_id=157460&release_id=524558 > > I untar'd it... and the rest is described in my message. > I hate that so many java applications out there have to install their > own jdk. Thankfully Alfresco comes with a raw .war version that can be > installed into an existing tomcat/jdk environment. > The only thing my description does not do is start OpenOffice on > bootup. I figure a simple startup script should fix that. I have run > the headless mode manually in a separate login session and it works fine > communicating to it. > So, Alfresco does run on F8's (and F7) Tomcat as long as you get Sun's > 1.6 jdk/jre. ---- OK - you got my interest here now that I've had some time to check out alfresco Do you really want to run Fedora 8 instead of RHELv5 or CentOS-5 ? How much RAM is this going to need for 3-10 users? Craig