How to install Alfresco in Ubuntu 9.10

To be precise, the title should be: How to install Alfresco 3 Community Edition in Kubuntu 9.10 64-bit with Java 6 and Tomcat 6

Because that the environment which prove the Alfresco to run smoothly. So this are the steps:

Please make sure Java 6, MySQL 5, and others installed

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre mysql-server mysql-client swftools imagemagick unzip

Download and extract Tomcat 6 and Alfresco 3 (Community Edition) WAR package

cd ~/Downloads
 wget -c http:/ /apache.the.net.id/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.20/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.20.tar.gz
 wget -c ??? (open http:/ /process.alfresco.com/ccdl/?file=release/community/build-2440/alfresco-community-war-3.2r2.tar.gz)
 wget -c http:/ /apache.the.net.id/commons/el/binaries/commons-el-1.0.tar.gz
 wget -c http:/ /dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/Connector-J/mysql-connector-java-5.1.10.tar.gz/from/http://mysql.mirror.tw/

 cd
 tar zxvf ~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-6.0.20.tar.gz
 tar zxvf ~/Downloads/alfresco-community-war-3.2r2.tar.gz -C /tmp/
 tar zxvf ~/Downloads/commons-el-1.0.tar.gz -C /tmp
 tar zxvf ~/Downloads/mysql-connector-java-5.1.10.tar.gz -C /tmp

 cp /tmp/endorsed/* ~/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/lib/
 cp /tmp/commons-el-1.0/commons-el.jar ~/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/lib/
 cp /tmp/mysql-connector-java-5.1.10/mysql-connector-java-5.1.10-bin.jar ~/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/lib/
 cp /tmp/alfresco.war /tmp/share.war ~/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/webapps/
 cd ~/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/webapps/
 unzip alfresco.war -d alfresco

Create database

echo "create database alfresco3; " | mysql -uroot -p

Create fixed location for index files

sudo mkdir /opt/alfresco3-data
sudo chmod 777 /opt/alfresco3-data

Create Alfresco config file

in ~/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco-global.properties which contains

dir.root=/opt/alfresco3-data

db.name=alfresco3
db.username=root
db.password=rootPwd
db.host=localhost
db.port=3306

ooo.exe=/usr/bin/soffice
swf.exe=/usr/bin/pdf2swf
img.root=/ImageMagick
img.exe=/usr/bin/convert

hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect

## For upgrading
# index.recovery.mode=FULL

Upgrade Tomcat memory

Make sure you add this line about line 73 of $CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh file.

JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -server
    -Xms1536m -Xmx1536m
    -XX:NewSize=256m -XX:MaxNewSize=256m -XX:PermSize=256m
    -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:+DisableExplicitGC"

Start Tomcat

cd ~/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/bin
./catalina.sh run

Alfresco in Action!

Just open http://localhost:8080/alfresco and it's done