Installing Prizm Content Connect on Linux

Prizm Content Connect installation is designed to be very straightforward for Linux environments. Follow the steps provided in this section.

Some steps may be specific to a particular Linux distribution; these steps will be labeled as being specific to one of the following: 

Note: The hash sign (#) is used to represent the command prompt. Do not include it when entering the commands.

Note: Make sure you log in as root to the machine.

1. Install LibreOffice

Install the latest stable version of LibreOffice for your OS. Download and install it from this location:
http://www.libreoffice.org/download

Follow LibreOffice Installation instructions from this location:
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/installation/linux/

Note: LibreOffice Desktop Integration for Linux is not needed; you do not need to complete those steps.

Note: The LibreOffice installation might fail if you have LibreOffice or any other application already listening on any of the following ports: 18580, 18584, 18585, 18586, 18590, 18591, 18592, 18593, 18680.

           By default, Prizm Content Connect installs the proxy service on port 18680 and uses 3 of the following ports for conversion purposes: 18580, 18584, 18585, 18586, 18591, 18592, 18593. You can add more ports as your traffic increases.

2. Install Inkscape

Install the latest stable version of Inkscape for your OS. Download and install it from this location:

http://inkscape.org/download/

An easier way to install Inkscape is using package manager such as: yum, apt-get, or zypper, as shown below; however, this may not work on all versions of all Linux flavors listed below.

Make sure your package manager installs at least Inkscape version 0.47-6 or higher.

3. Install OpenOffice.org 3 (optional)

Prizm Content Connect still supports OpenOffice.org 3 as Office document converter. If you want to use OpenOffice.org 3 with Prizm, please follow the installation instructions here:

http://www.openoffice.org/download/common/instructions.html#linux

The instructions are specific for each Linux flavor. You need to configure OpenOffice.org 3 after your Prizm service is running by following the instructions shown later in this document.

4. Download & Install Prizm Content Connect

Download the proper package for your distribution and architecture and install as root.

5. Configure

Continuing as root, change to the installation location, /usr/share/prizm and run setup.sh. This will confirm your LibreOffice installation location. Run the Prizm Licensing Utility (PLU), and configure the proxyserver for its first run.

Note: setup.sh launches the Prizm License Utility (PLU), which is a GUI application. Depending on how you have X11 configured, you might need to run ‘xhost +’ as the logged in user to allow the PLU launched by the root user to access X11.  You can disable X11 access for root by executing ‘xhost –‘ when you are done.

# ./setup.sh
user@ubuntu:/usr/share/prizm$ sudo ./setup.sh
Using office at odc_installation=/opt/libreoffice4.0
./java/jre6-linux-x86-64/bin/java -jar ./plu.jar
./scripts/proxyserver.sh start
Starting Convert2SWF...
./java/jre6-linux-x86-64/bin/java -jar ./convert2swfclient.jar firstinit
12:01:13.383 version:
12:01:13.383 license: licensed [f:1]
12:01:13.494 JVM: 1.6.0_26 (x64), Sun Microsystems Inc.
OS: Linux (Version: 2.6.38-16-generic, amd64)
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz
Processors available: 1
Memory: max: 239, total: 29, free: 26 (MB)
User: language: en, country: US, timezone: America/Los_Angeles
File: encoding: UTF-8, encoding.pkg: sun.io, separator: /

12:01:13.495 jar: /usr/share/prizm/bin/proxyserver.jar
12:01:13.751 modules: ../modules/
12:01:13.751 info: jar library and modules successfully initialized
12:01:13.862 task commander execution time: 0.303 seconds

If you see output similar to this, your proxyserver is NOT running:

java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
     at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
:
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
        :
     at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
     at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
     ... 4 more

6. Verify that installation was successful

Go to /usr/share/prizm/logs directory, and open the “proxyserver.log” file. Scroll down to the very end and verify that you the see the following:

INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/12/16 22:02:57 | [ info  ] [2 / 2] All worker instances has been started
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/12/16 22:02:57 | [ info  ] Proxy listening on socket,host=localhost,port=18580
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/12/16 22:02:57 | [ info  ] jvm restart schedule [1] : 06:00
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/12/16 22:02:57 | [ info  ] [http-server] starting...
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/12/16 22:02:57 | [ info  ] [http-server] created queue pool: 600
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/12/16 22:02:57 | [ info  ] [http-server] binding to: socket,host=localhost,port=18680
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/12/16 22:02:57 | [ info  ] [http-server] binded to: socket,host=localhost,port=18680
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/12/16 22:02:58 | [ info  ]
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/12/16 22:02:58 | =========================================================
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/12/16 22:02:58 |
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/12/16 22:02:58 |   Office Document Converter Proxy Server Started
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/12/16 22:02:58 | 
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/12/16 22:02:58 | =========================================================

You can also verify the installation by browsing to:
http://localhost:18680/
  or
http://<http_host>:<http_port>/

where http_host and http_port are the property values from /usr/share/prizm /conf/proxyserver_jar.properties

The url above should show text similar to this in a browser:

Accusoft Prizm Service is running.
Version: 7.0.1000.0000
Copyright (c) 2013 Accusoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

7. Setting OpenOffice.org as Office Document converter

If you see your Prizm installation is successful you may still configure OpenOffice.org as Office document converter. Make sure you have installed OpenOffice.org 3 as described earlier in this document.

At first, you need to locate the root folder of your OpenOffice.org 3 installation. The OpenOffice.org 3 application is on the supported Linux flavors usually located in one of the following directories:

/opt/openoffice.org3
/usr/bin/openoffice.org
/usr/lib/openoffice.org3
/usr/lib64/openoffice.org3

Now, edit /conf/proxyserver_jar.properties and change following parameter to fit the root location of OpenOffice.org 3, e.g.:

# Office Document converter installation base directory
odc_installation=/opt/openoffice.org3

Save proxyserver_jar.properties and restart Prizm service.

You can see the OpenOffice.org application location noted in /logs/proxyserver.log similar to this:

INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/02/15 22:11:38 | Office Document converter : /opt/openoffice.org3/program

If you want to get back to LibreOffice, you need to specify LibreOffice root folder in / conf/proxyserver_jar.properties again, such as:

# Office Document converter installation base directory
odc_installation=/opt/libreoffice4.0

Save the proxyserver_jar.properties, restart Prizm service and check proxyserver.log to make sure Prizm uses the desired Office document converter.