Installing Prizm Document Converter on Linux
Prizm Document Converter 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:
“Red Hat / Fedora (CentOS) Linux Distributions”
“Debian (Ubuntu) Linux Distributions”
“SUSE Linux Distributions”
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 Document Converter 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:
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.
Red Hat / Fedora (CentOS) Linux Distributions
# yum install inkscape
In case of missing libraries or any other issues with the
installation, please follow the instructions here:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingFedora
Debian (Ubuntu) Linux Distributions
# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get install inkscape
In case of missing libraries or any other issues with the
installation, please follow the instructions here:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingUbuntu
SUSE Linux Distributions
# zypper install inkscape
In case of missing libraries or any other issues with the
installation, please follow the instructions here:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingSuse
3. Install OpenOffice.org 3 (optional)
Prizm Document Converter also 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 Document Converter
Download the proper package for your distribution and architecture and install as root.
Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, and older Linux Distributions
32-bit: prizmconverter_<version>.i686.rpm
64-bit: prizmconverter_<version>.x86_64.rpm
# yum install --nogpgcheck prizmconverter_<version>.x86_64.rpm
SUSE Linux Distributions
32-bit: prizmconverter_sles_<version>.i686.rpm
64-bit: prizmconverter_sles_<version>.x86_64.rpm
# zypper install prizmconverter_sles_<version>.x86_64.rpm
Debian (Ubuntu) Linux Distributions
32-bit: prizmconverter_<version>.i386.deb
64-bit: prizmconverter_<version>.amd64.deb
# sudo apt-get install gdebi
# sudo gdebi prizmconverter_<version>.amd64.deb
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:
# tar –xzvf prizmconverter_<version>.x86_64.tar.gz
# cp –R prizm /usr/share
# cd /usr/share/prizm
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
# 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
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
# 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.