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InstallationLinuxDebian
Installing Alfresco 2.x Community on Debian. (for 3.x, see [http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Labs_3_Stable_on_Debian_E...])
This tutorial will help you install a clean Alfresco 2.x Community on a Linux Debian system without Graphical User Interface.
By following this tutorial you will have a Alfresco system up & running in 1 hour!
I used 'debian-40r1-i386-netinst' for the installation of Debian.
After the installation of Debian you will have to update your system to the latest version.
You can do this easily with the command:
apt-get update
When this command has finished doing it's work you can execute this command:
apt-get upgrade
Confirm with Y so it will install, when the installation is done you can reboot the system to let the changes take effect.
Alfresco Installation
First we need a few applications we will use the apt-get command for this again:
apt-get install openssh-server apache2 xvfb xfonts-base openoffice.org
Confirm with Y so it will install.
When the installation of these programs is done you should edit the OpenOffice Registration file which is located in:
/usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Common.xcu
Use your favorite editor to modify the Common.xcu (I used pico).
Find this line (which is between <value></value>): http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/registration20.html and remove it.
Save the file when you have removed this URL.
Creating the Alfresco directory
Go to /opt/ and create a directory by using the mkdir command:
mkdir alfresco
When you have done this go into this directory.
Now use WGET to fetch Alfresco Community from the sourceforge.net webpage.
The Alfresco Community packages can be found on: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373&package_id=157460
The file we downloaded was: alfresco-community-tomcat-2.1.0.tar.gz
wget http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/alfresco/alfresco-community-tomcat-2.1.0.tar.gz
Once you have downloaded the .tar.gz into /opt/alfresco/ it is time to extract it.
You can do this by entering this command:
tar -zxvf alfresco-community-tomcat-2.1.0.tar.gz
Downloading & Installing java
We need the Java runtime to make Alfresco work 
Which is available from: http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
First we are going to create a new directory in /usr/
We called it 'java'
Use the mkdir command to make this directory. When this is done go into this directory.
Again use WGET to fetch java from the website. The package you will need is:
Linux (self-extracting file)
When the file is downloaded you need to chmod it.
You can do this by entering this command:
chmod +x jre-6u3-linux-i586.bin
(the filename may differ we downloaded the 6u3 version)
Once you have chmodded the file you execute it by adding ./ infront of the filename.. like this:
./jre-6u3-linux-i586.bin
You will see a license agreement and you just have to agree with it on the end.
Java is now installed!
Adding JAVA Export into startup file from Alfresco
This file is located in /opt/alfresco/ The file is named alfresco.sh
Edit it with your favorite editor (I used pico)
Find this line:
# Set any default JVM values
and add this under it:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/
NOTE: If you installed a different version of java this might be an incorrect path!!!
Installing MySQL and Configuring Alfresco
We are going to use apt-get again to get the applications we need.
apt-get install mysql-server-5.0 mysql-admin
Once these are installed you enter these commands into the prompt:
mysql
connect mysql
Now you are connected into the database of MySQL! You will need to add these priveleges to make Alfresco work you can do this by entering these commands in the MySQL shell:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'alfresco'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'alfresco' WITH GRANT OPTION;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'alfresco'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'alfresco' WITH GRANT OPTION;
and exit by typing exit
Creating MySQL Alfresco DB
Go to this directory:
/opt/alfresco/extras/databases/mysql
When you are in there you enter this command:
mysql -u root -p
