Virtual Appliance Downloads

[robclay]

I have searched the forum and see a few instances where some folks have made a linux / OpenKM virtual appliance available for download. I even see where they mention the repository. But I cannot find a copy of the Virtual Appliance, especially with the latest OpenKM. (Now at 6.2.2)

Is someone willing to make a virtual machine with all packages ready to go? (You choose the best version of Linux) - I would be willing to chip in some pizza money and then the community would have the latest version to assist folks like me who would rather spend their time learning / configuring the system and not installing it.

Does the professional version include a VM?

(As an aside, Nuxeo Evaluation runs on vmware player... I downloaded it and had it running in literally 5 minutes. So I have been evaluating that due to ease of installation and use. Then I stumbled on the online demo of OpenKM, and am impressed thus far... but want to take my evaluation to the next level.)

Thanks,
Robert

[robclay]

Okay,

So I am attempting to get this started...

As an aside - the Sun Oracle Virtual Box (https://www.virtualbox.org/) is very easy to use.

I installed Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS.

I downloaded the "openkm-6.2.1-community-linux-installer.run/download" and it saved in ubuntu's 'download' directory. I moved that file to the following:
\home\user\OpenKM

I then tried to double-click the file. No luck.
I went to a command prompt and "chmod +x openkm-6.2.1-community-linux-installer.run"
I then tried to double-click the file. Still no luck.
At some point I had it give me an error about not expecting a "("

Should I have been trying to use Ubuntu Server?

[techexpress]

OK i will try to help you.
It's very better to work from console :
So after
chmod +x openkm-6.2.1-community-linux-installer.run ( it 's to give execute permission ), now you can run installer with :

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./openkm-6.2.1-community-linux-installer.run

It'S a script to install openkm just follow install instruction .
At the end it give to you the start and stop instaruction :
exemple:

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/opt/openkm-6.2.1/tomcat/bin/startup.sh

for start

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/opt/openkm-6.2.1/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh

for stop
http://wiki.openkm.com/index.php/Quick_ ... :_OpenKM_6 for the logging instruction
Also chek the wiki page If you want to access to all , and most important pages, please become a subscriber and help them to keep OpenKM alive.

[robclay]

Thanks techexpress! your instructions got the install to run!

It installed in /home/user/openkm-6.2.1-community

If I use the File folders from the unity desktop, I see an icon called "Start OpenKM" Within that directory. It does nothing as the exec field is blank. When I use a terminal session, I don't even see it listed when I do an 'ls' command in that directory. (And I am aware that a major part of the difficulty is my lack of linux knowledge. I am just trying to get this installed and then I can test out OpenKM!)

So, within terminal, I changed to the /home/user/openkm-6.2.1-community/tomcat/bin directory and tried "./catalina.sh" but get a "Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined..."

I am assuming that I just need to find the right script in which to start the services?

Thanks for any assistance!

[techexpress]

On your Ubuntu desktop , you should open Firefox and go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/OpenKM

Home user folder isn't very good for installation , i'm not sure if it's OK for OpenKM.
But if you can loggin after install it's OK

But , I think you need to remove the installation via menu OpenKM "uninstalling OpenKM" and install it from Shell (open a terminal Console )
type : pwd to see the folder name
after type cd ..
and ls
You need to be in the root of hard drive
and install openkm in /opt/openkm ....

Youn didn't need to change anything after installation

[robclay]

Thanks!

I needed to install java I think, which I did using this link:
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/install- ... u-via.html

And then I found that I needed to be in the root of the drive to start it using:
sudo /opt/openkm-6.2.1-community/tomcat/bin/startup.sh

And that seems to be working. Thanks for the patience and help!

- Robert

[pavila]

This post have good information about installing Java in Ubuntu, but keep on mind that OpenKM 6.2 has not fully tested with Java 7 and may have problems.