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Installproblems with Alfresco 2.0 and unattended mode

reisszahn — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:47:51 GMT

Hello Users,I have a problem with the installation on suse 10.2[root@vmware-alfresco]# ./alfrescocommunity-2.0-linux-x86-install -SAn error has occurred during installation An error has occurred during installation error renaming "/opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/

Re: Installproblems with Alfresco 2.0 and unattended mode

forcev — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:05:42 GMT

How did you pass the mysql parameter?

./alfrescocommunity-2.0-linux-x86-install -S -DALF_DB=mysql

or

./alfrescocommunity-2.0-linux-x86-install -DALF_DB=mysql -S

Re: Installproblems with Alfresco 2.0 and unattended mode

reisszahn — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:33:45 GMT

both…. :cry:

ALF_DB=hsql doesn't work too

Re: Installproblems with Alfresco 2.0 and unattended mode

forcev — Fri, 25 May 2007 08:10:12 GMT

I've just tried and I'm afraid I get the same errors

Out of interest, are you trying to use the unattend to install on a headless machine which has no X windows? If so have you tried using ssh -X ?

Re: Installproblems with Alfresco 2.0 and unattended mode

reisszahn — Fri, 25 May 2007 09:14:13 GMT

Yes, it's in a vmware.
I have installed it on suse 10.2 with kde without any problems..
but the -S doesn't work correctly..
i will not use the kde because the overhead is to much. (with kde=3gb without =1,5gb)
I don't know ssh -x.. Can you explain?

can somebody help me with the unattended installation without x windows?

Re: Installproblems with Alfresco 2.0 and unattended mode

paulhh — Fri, 25 May 2007 09:47:20 GMT

Couple of things - first, we're going to be moving to the latest version of InstallJammer with the next release, which has a console-based install capability, so I hope this will solve the problem going forward.

Currently, all the install does is copy or move configuration files in the installed dir tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\extension.

The database-specific ones that are used on server startup are:
custom-db-connection.properties
custom-hibernate-dialect.properties

You can see the different db versions of these in there with their DB suffix. Just copy/move them as needed.

So, write a small script that does the default comandline install, followed by the file switching.

Cheers
Paul.

Re: Installproblems with Alfresco 2.0 and unattended mode

forcev — Fri, 25 May 2007 10:20:44 GMT

paulhh, are there any plans to package Alfresco - rpm / deb? Similar to the likes of Zimbra

I don't know ssh -x.. Can you explain?

can somebody help me with the unattended installation without x windows?

The way I managed to install Alfresco on my production headless server that doesn't have X Windows installed was simple. Using the -X option it redirects the X session to your machine.

I just ran

ssh -X <server.host.name>‍

from my workstation (running linux); entered my credentials as normal; ran the installer; and did my selections as if I ran the installer locally within my KDE/GNOME session. Make sure you run -X and NOT -x, also ensure you run it from within your LAN and not over the WAN this is ssh's own recommendation.

I installed this way and it worked for me, hope it helps.