Installing PAS on Linux

PAS is delivered as part of the "PrizmDoc Client" installation package (available as deb, rpm, and generic Linux).

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

Red Hat / CentOS Linux Distributions
Ubuntu Linux Distributions

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

NOTE: If you have an updated license, you must re-start PAS and PrizmDoc Server in order to use the new license.

Step 1 - Download the "PrizmDoc Client" Installation Package Appropriate for Your Linux Distribution

NOTE: Packages are only available for 64-bit systems.

Before downloading the "PrizmDoc Client" package, you will need to purchase a license key or request a Trial Evaluation by filling out the appropriate form at www.accusoft.com.

Once you have filled out the form for a Trial Evaluation, you can download the "PrizmDoc Client" package by doing one of the following:

Following the link provided in the response email and selecting the desired Linux distribution.
Downloading directly to the Linux server using the wget command for the specific distribution as shown below:

TIP: You must substitute the version of the package you are using in the code examples below. For example, if you are using v13.8, then specify "13.8" instead of "<version>". If the version is a hot fix, you will need to also specify the hot fix number, for example, "13.8.1".

Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS v7 and Later

wget http://products.accusoft.com/PrizmDoc/<version>/prizmdoc_client_<version>.x86_64.rpm.tar.gz

Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS v6 and Earlier (and Similar Older Linux Distributions)

wget http://products.accusoft.com/PrizmDoc/<version>/prizmdoc_client_<version>.x86_64.rpm.tar.gz

Ubuntu

wget http://products.accusoft.com/PrizmDoc/<version>/prizmdoc_client_<version>.amd64.deb.tar.gz

Generic .tar.gz

wget http://products.accusoft.com/PrizmDoc/<version>/prizmdoc_client_<version>.x86_64.tar.gz

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:

Decompress and unpack the downloaded file. After you have unpacked the archive, the contents will have been decompressed into a directory named prizmdoc_client_<version>.<arch>[.rpm|.deb].
Change to the unpacked directory and install the packages.

Red Hat, CentOS, and Older Linux Distributions

tar -xzvf prizmdoc_client_*.rpm.tar.gz
cd prizmdoc_client_*.rpm
yum install --nogpgcheck *.rpm

Ubuntu

tar -xzvf prizmdoc_client_*.deb.tar.gz
cd prizmdoc_client_*.deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
# 'dpkg' does not resolve dependencies automatically, so please ignore possible errors, if you did not install required dependencies yet, and invoke next commands
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -f install

NOTE: For Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04, the php-xml package additional dependency must be installed. The Prizm installer does not install it automatically. Please manually install this package as follows:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php-xml

Generic .tar.gz Distribution

We also provide a generic .tar.gz package. Please review the System Requirements and Supported Environments topic to ensure compatibility. You will also 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 prizmdoc_client_*.tar.gz
cd prizmdoc_client_*
ls prizm-*.tar.gz | xargs -n1 tar zxf
cp -R prizm /usr/share/

Go to the Samples topic for instructions on how to configure the connection between:
- Your Viewer web tier and PAS and,
- between PAS and PrizmDoc Server.

Step 3 (Optional) - Add PAS to the Boot Sequence

You can configure PAS to start/stop together with the system in two steps:

Create a symbolic link to ./pas/pm2/pas.sh in the /etc/init.d/ directory:

ln -s /usr/share/prizm/pas/pm2/pas.sh /etc/init.d/pas

Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, and Older Linux Distributions

chkconfig --add pas

Ubuntu

update-rc.d pas defaults

Once this is done, the system should stop PAS when going to reboot or shutdown, and will be started again when booting the server.

Excluding PAS from the Boot Sequence

If you want to prevent PAS from starting/stopping together with the system, you need to revert Step 2 from the section above. This can be performed as follows:

Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, and Older Linux Distributions

chkconfig --del pas

Ubuntu

update-rc.d -f pas remove