alfresco installation?

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 18:50 -0800, Jeff Gustafson wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 21:34 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> > i may be misreading stuff badly, but i don't see how it's even
> > *remotely* possible that alfresco, out of the box, is going to install
> > on fedora 8.  check out the "start_oo.sh" script that's installed and
> > is invoked when you try to start alfresco:
> 
> 
> 	I don't run the script.  I get the war distribution called
> 'alfresco-community-war-2.1.0.tar.gz'.  It's located at:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373&package_id=157460&release_id=524558
> 
> 	I untar'd it... and the rest is described in my message.
> 	I hate that so many java applications out there have to install their
> own jdk.  Thankfully Alfresco comes with a raw .war version that can be
> installed into an existing tomcat/jdk environment.  
> 	The only thing my description does not do is start OpenOffice on
> bootup.  I figure a simple startup script should fix that.  I have run
> the headless mode manually in a separate login session and it works fine
> communicating to it.
> 	So, Alfresco does run on F8's (and F7) Tomcat as long as you get Sun's
> 1.6 jdk/jre.
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OK - you got my interest here now that I've had some time to check out
alfresco

Do you really want to run Fedora 8 instead of RHELv5 or CentOS-5 ?

How much RAM is this going to need for 3-10 users?

Craig