Help needed by MySQL/UNIX nubie on OS X

[gregm]

Hello all,

I'm interested in checking out the open source version of Alfresco and have been trying to install it but so far I have not been successful. Would anyone be willing to give me a hand?

I should probably warn you that I have little knowledge of UNIX or MySQL 😉

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

[flafeer]

If there is enough interest in running Alfresco on OS X, I could put together an installer similar to the one that they've made for Windows.

Meanwhile, here are the major steps:

You will want Apple's 1.5.0_x release of Java. The current version is "Release 4". If you are not sure what version you currently have, just open a terminal shell and type 'java -version'.

If you don't have 1.5.0_x, you can get it from software update or manually from http://developer.apple.com/java/download/

Another component you will want is mysql. Mysql produces an OS X distribution, so that's easy:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html

Optionally, you may want to install OpenOffice. Which one you choose there will depend on if you are on Intel or PPC.

And then you can download and install the tomcat (or jboss) Alfresco bundle (either .zip or .tgz)

Hope this helps. If I have left something out, please let me know. OS X was actually the first platform I tried for Alfresco, and it went quite smoothly, so you should have no problem.