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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: 

• "Red Hat / Fedora (CentOS) Linux Distributions"
• "Debian (Ubuntu) Linux Distributions"

Step 1 - Install LibreOffice

1. Install the latest stable version of LibreOffice for your OS. Download and install it from this location: http://www.libreoffice.org/download
2. Follow LibreOffice Installation instructions from this location: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/installation/linux/

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

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.

Step 2 - Install OpenOffice.org 3 (Optional)

1. Prizm Content Connect still supports OpenOffice.org 3 as Office document converter. If you want to use OpenOffice.org 3 with Prizm, follow the installation instructions here: http://www.openoffice.org/download/common/instructions.html#linux
2. 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 below in this topic.

Step 3 - Download & Install Prizm Content Connect

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

Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, and older Linux Distributions

32-bit: prizmcc_<version>.i686.rpm
64-bit: prizmcc_<version>.x86_64.rpm

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# yum install –-nogpgcheck prizmcc_<version>.x86_64.rpm

Debian (Ubuntu) Linux Distributions

32-bit: prizmcc_<version>.i386.deb
64-bit: prizmcc_<version>.amd64.deb

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# sudo apt-get install gdebi-core # sudo gdebi prizmcc_<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:

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# tar –xzvf prizmcc_<version>.x86_64.tar.gz # cp –R prizm /usr/share # cd /usr/share/prizm

Step 4 - Configure

1. 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:

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.

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# ./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: <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

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

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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

Step 5 - Start PCCIS

1. Continuing as root, run the pccis.sh script to start the PCCIS service:

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# /usr/share/prizm/scripts/pccis.sh start

Step 6 - Verify that the Installation was Successful

1. 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:

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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 | =========================================================

2. 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:

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

Step 7 - Installation Complete

Your installation is now complete.

Optional Configuration

Alternatively, you can configure the Prizm service to use OpenOffice instead of LibreOffice using the following settings:

1. 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.
2. 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

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

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

4. Save proxyserver_jar.properties and restart Prizm service. You can see the OpenOffice.org application location noted in <prizm-install>/logs/proxyserver.log similar to this:

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

5. If you want to get back to LibreOffice, you need to specify LibreOffice root folder in <prizm-install>/ conf/proxyserver_jar.properties again, such as:

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

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

How to Install Common Certificate Authority Root Certificates on Linux

The following commands should all be run as root. Additionally, if prompted for addition/removal permission, then yes/no should be entered as the response.

1. Install all Mozilla's root certificates. This command will install all the root certificates Mozilla accepts, prompting only to remove certificates that Mozilla doesn't list, adding all it does trust without prompt. This should make HTTPS work for any system that Firefox works with:

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/usr/share/prizm/mono/64/bin/mozroots --machine --import --ask-remove

2. Pull certificates from an https connection to accept:

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/usr/share/prizm/mono/64/bin/certmgr -ssl -m https://servertoadd

As long as the server includes the entire chain to root, this will allow the certificate to authenticate. This will generally be the case for self-signed test certificates. For more complex situations, any required items from the chain will need to be added manually.

3. Manually add the certificate from the file:

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/usr/share/prizm/mono/64/bin/certmgr -add -c -m /path/to/certificatefile

The certificate stores the certificates at: /usr/share/.mono/certs/.

 

 

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