Can't get DocX conversion working -

nickd — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 23:15:23 GMT

I've been slowly working through installing Alfresco Community 4.2.d, without using the installer - I'm working on Docker, and for some reason the installer just dies with exit code 1 and no error message, and not even accepting flags. So, I've grabbed the wars and have deployed them on tomcat, and

Re: Can't get DocX conversion working -

nickd — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:49:18 GMT

Self-resolved this; I had a few issues:
<ul>
<li>This error seemed to be a red herring - having nothing to do with it not working</li>
<li>Somehow, I had managed to download alfresco 3.3 WARs instead of the ones I had intended</li>
<li>Realised that I don't need to run soffice as a service manually, because as long as the proper location is configured in alfresco-global.properties it'll launch itself automatically</li>
<li>Needed to install SWFtools and/or ImageMagick - these weren't listed on the alfresco wiki page I was using as a reference</li>
</ul>

I've got another error with thumbnails not rendering, but will chase this up separately.

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