Prizm Content Connect
Installation on a Headless Environment
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How To Install PCC in a Linux Headless Environment

Required Action

The '#' sign in command examples denotes running the command as the root user. All command lines preceded by the '>' sign are the example output of that command, where applicable.

Step 1 - Download Prizm Content Connect

  1. Download the appropriate package for your distribution by going to: http://www.accusoft.com/products/prizm-content-connect/get-it
    Packages are only available for 64-bit systems.

Step 2 - Unpack & Install the Downloaded Archive

Open a command line and change to the location where you downloaded the tarball. Use the following command line examples appropriate for your distribution to:

  1. Decompress and unpack the downloaded file. After you have unpacked the archive, the contents will have been decompressed into a directory named "prizmcc_<version>_rpm(or _deb)". 
  2. Change to the unpacked directory and install the packages.

Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, and Older Linux Distributions

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# tar –xzvf prizmcc_<version>_rpm.tar.gz
 # cd prizmcc_<version>_rpm
 # yum install –nogpgcheck *.rpm

Debian (Ubuntu) Linux Distributions

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# tar –xzvf prizmcc_<version>_deb.tar.gz
 # cd prizmcc_<version>_deb
 # sudo dpkg –i *.deb
 # sudo apt-get –f install

Generic .tar.gz Distribution

We also provide a generic .tar.gz package. You will need to install the dependencies described in the Requirements section. Once the dependencies are installed, you can install the .tar.gz with the following commands as root:

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# tar -xzvf prizm-contentconnect*.tar.gz
 # tar -xzvf prizm-services*.tar.gz
 # cp -R prizm /usr/share/

 

Step 3 - Setup

  1. Run the following commands to initiate setup:
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# cd /usr/share/prizm
# sh ./setup.sh

The setup script will now invoke a text-based wizard for licensing:

To install a license at the end of the evaluation period, (for example, a deployment license), run the following command:

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# ./setup.sh eval get youremail@example.com
If you already have a license for PCC, you can use one of the other licensing options, detailed in the Command Line Mode Licensing section of the help.
  1.  To confirm the licensing has succeeded, run the following command, which will output your license key:   
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# cat ./conf/proxyserver_jar.properties | grep license_key
> license_key=<long string>
       
  1. If PCC has started and no errors have been reported, then the installation process is complete.
However, if you have an error in the log stating that it cannot connect to the Office converter Worker-1 instance, then you must continue to the 'Step 4 - Running an X Virtual Framebuffer' section below.

 

Step 4 - Running an X Virtual Framebuffer Server

A full version of the X11 server is not required to run PCC. However, the minimum requirement is the X Virtual Framebuffer Server, which you can install and run separately from an entire X11 instance.

  1. To install the X Virtual Framebuffer Server, run the following command:

Debian/Ubuntu

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# sudo apt-get install xvfb
   

Red Hat / CentOS

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# yum install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb
  1. Start the service by running the following command, and then export the instance to the DISPLAY environment variable expected by the Prizm service:
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# Xvfb :20 >/dev/null 2>&1 &
# export DISPLAY=:20

  1. Start PCC:
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# /usr/share/prizm/scripts/pccis.sh start

Required:

The X Virtual Framebuffer Server must be running any time that the Prizm service is running.

Suggested:

It may be appropriate to create a script that will start the Xvfb service and Prizm Services (the 3 lines above) to execute whenever the machine is restarted.

 

Step 5 - Configure on CentOS 5.x

PCC will not work on a CentOS 5.x system with the default LibreOffice. For this purpose you need to download and install LibreOffice from libreoffice.org as described in Step 1 above.

  1. Locate root folder of your LibreOffice installation. The LibreOffice is usually located in the following directory: /opt/libreoffice4.x
  1. Edit <prizm-install>/conf/proxyserver_jar.properties and change following parameter to fit the root location of LibreOffice:
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Office Document converter installation base directory
#odc_installation=/usr/share/prizm/libreoffice
odc_installation=/opt/libreoffice4.3
  1. Change the watchdog.config OCS officeInstallPath to point to a community version of LibreOffice:

By default this value is:

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"officeInstallPath":"../libreoffice/program"

or

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"officeInstallPath":"/usr/share/prizm/libreoffice/program"

Example of fixed path:

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"officeInstallPath":"/opt/libreoffice4.4/program"
  1. Save proxyserver_jar.properties, restart Prizm service and check proxyserver.log to make sure PCC uses the installed LibreOffice.
  2. The installation process is now complete. You can view the status of the Prizm Platform Services from any browser with access to the deployment machine at http://<servername>:18681/admin.

 

 

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