PrizmDoc Viewer v13.7 - Updated
Install on Linux
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To install the PrizmDoc Viewer using PrizmDoc Self-Hosted, follow the steps provided in this section:

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

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

Step 1 - Download the PrizmDoc Viewer Linux Distribution

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

Before downloading PrizmDoc, 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 PrizmDoc by doing one of the following:

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 prizmdoc_client_<version>.<arch>[.rpm|.deb].
  2. Change to the unpacked directory and install the packages.

    Red Hat, CentOS, and Older Linux Distributions

    The following example is for Red Hat, CentOS, and older Linux distributions:

    Example

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

    Ubuntu Linux Distributions

    The following example is for Ubuntu Linux distributions:

    Example

    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 command
    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:

    Example

    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:

    Example

    tar -xzvf prizmdoc_client_*.tar.gz
    cd prizmdoc_client_*
    ls prizm-*.tar.gz | xargs -n1 tar zxf
    cp -R prizm /usr/share/
    
    
  3. Go to Configure Server Connections for instructions on how to configure the connection between:

    • Your Viewer web tier and PAS and,
    • between PAS and PrizmDoc Server.

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

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

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

    Example

    ln -s /usr/share/prizm/pas/pm2/pas.sh /etc/init.d/pas
    
    
  2. Register PAS as an init script, so that it is managed by the system. This step is platform-dependent.

    Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, and Older Linux Distributions

    Example

    chkconfig --add pas
    
    

    Ubuntu Linux Distributions

    Example

    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

Example

chkconfig --del pas

Ubuntu Linux Distributions

Example

update-rc.d -f pas remove