How to install Alfresco Community Edition on Ubuntu 12.04

Alfresco is a free/libre enterprise content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems. Alfresco comes in three flavors:

• Alfresco Community Edition
• Alfresco Enterprise Edition
• Alfresco Cloud Edition

Alfresco includes a content repository, an out-of-the-box web portal framework for managing and using standard portal content, a CIFS interface that provides file system compatibility on Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems, a web content management system capable of virtualizing webapps and static sites via Apache Tomcat, Lucene indexing, and Activiti workflow. The Alfresco system is developed using Java technology.
Before downloading and installing Alfresco we need to install JAVA on the machin:

apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

1	apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

Verify the Java Installation using below command:

java -version

1	java -version

Output will something like this:

java version "1.7.0_25" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.3.10) (7u25-2.3.10-1ubuntu0.12.04.2) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mod

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java version "1.7.0_25" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.3.10) (7u25-2.3.10-1ubuntu0.12.04.2) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode)

Now we will download Alfresco:

wget -O alfresco-community-4.2.c-installer-linux-x64.bin http://dl.alfresco.com/release/community/build-04576/alfresco-community-4.2.c-installer-linux-x64.bin?dl_file=release/community/build-04576/alfresco-community-4.2.c-installer-linux-x64.bin

1	wget -O alfresco-community-4.2.c-installer-linux-x64.bin http://dl.alfresco.com/release/community/build-04576/alfresco-community-4.2.c-installer-linux-x64.bin?dl_file=release/community/build-04576/alfresco-community-4.2.c-installer-linux-x64.bin

Set proper permission to the executable file:

chmod +x alfresco-community-4.2.c-installer-linux-x64.bin

1	chmod +x alfresco-community-4.2.c-installer-linux-x64.bin

Start the installation in Text mode:

./alfresco-community-4.2.c-installer-linux-x64.bin --mode text

1	./alfresco-community-4.2.c-installer-linux-x64.bin --mode text

Select the Language

Language Selection Please select the installation language [1] English - English [2] French - Français [3] Spanish - Español [4] Italian - Italiano [5] German - Deutsch [6] Japanese - æ¬èr [7] Dutch - Nederlands [8] Russian - РÑѺий [9] Simplified Chinese - ç½中æ Please choose an option [1] :

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Language Selection   Please select the installation language [1] English - English [2] French - Français [3] Spanish - Español [4] Italian - Italiano [5] German - Deutsch [6] Japanese - æ¬èr [7] Dutch - Nederlands [8] Russian - РÑѺий [9] Simplified Chinese - ç½中æ Please choose an option [1] :

Select the installation type:

Installation Type [1] Easy - Installs servers with the default configuration [2] Advanced - Configures server ports and service properties.: Also choose optional components to install. Please choose an option [1] :

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Installation Type   [1] Easy - Installs servers with the default configuration [2] Advanced - Configures server ports and service properties.: Also choose optional components to install. Please choose an option [1] :

Select the Installation Folder:

Installation folder

1	Installation folder

Please choose a folder to install Alfresco Community

Select a folder [/opt/alfresco-4.2.c]:

1	Select a folder [/opt/alfresco-4.2.c]:

Enter the Admin password:

Admin Password Please give a password to use for the Alfresco administrator account. Admin Password: : Repeat Password:

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Admin Password   Please give a password to use for the Alfresco administrator account.   Admin Password: : Repeat Password:

If you are installing this with root user then it will ask you for run it as a service:

Install as a service

1	Install as a service

You can optionally register Alfresco Community as a service. This way it will
automatically be started every time the machine is started.

Install Alfresco Community as a service? [Y/n]:

1	Install Alfresco Community as a service? [Y/n]:

Finally it will ask you before start installing

Setup is now ready to begin installing Alfresco Community on your computer. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]:

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Setup is now ready to begin installing Alfresco Community on your computer.   Do you want to continue? [Y/n]:

It will show you the status like this during the installation

Installing 0% ______________ 50% ______________ 100% ########################################

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Installing 0% ______________ 50% ______________ 100% ########################################

To finish the install and show the README file, enter Y (yes).
Use the URL http://hostnameofthemachine:8080/share to verify that Alfresco is running or not.
User name is admin and Password is what you entered during configuration.