Install Alfresco Content Service 6.0 on ubuntu 16 using distribution zip

1. Download installation in a dir ‘ALF_INSTALL_DIR’
1. Alfresco Content ServicesDistribution (alfresco-content-services-distribution-6.0.x.zip
2. Alfresco Search ServicesDistribution (alfresco-search-services-1.3.x.zip)
3. Alfresco File Transfer Receiver (Optional)
4. apache-tomcat-8.5.28.tar.gz

2. Extract installations
3. Rename (optional)
1. alfresco-content-services-community-distribution-6.0.7-ga to ‘acs’
2. Apache-tomcat-8.5.28 to ‘tomcat’
4. Move ‘tomcat’ folder to ‘ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs’ folder
5. Move ‘alfresco-search-services’ folder to ‘ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs’ folder

6. Create ‘amps_share’ directory under ‘ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs’
7. Follow Steps 2 to 8 from here http://docs.alfresco.com/community/tasks/configfiles-change-path.html
8. Move ‘conf’ directory from ‘ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/web-server/’ to ‘ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/tomcat’
9. Move ‘lib’ directory from ‘ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/web-server/’ to ‘ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/tomcat’
10. Move ‘shared’ directory from ‘ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/web-server/’ to ‘ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/tomcat’
11. Move ‘conf’ directory from ‘ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/web-server/’ to ‘ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/tomcat’
12. Move alfresco.war, share.war, ROOT.war from ‘ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/web-server/webapps’ to ‘ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/tomcat/webapps’
13. Remove all directories in 'ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/tomcat/webapps.
14. Have a JDBC connector ‘mysql-connector-java-5.1.42.jar’ in ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/tomcat/lib
15. Unzip ‘alfresco-pdf-renderer-1.1-linux.tgz’ from 'ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/alfresco-pdf-renderer/
16. Delete ‘alfresco-pdf-renderer-1.1-win64.tgz’ from ‘ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/alfresco-pdf-renderer/’
17. Create directory ‘modules/platform’ and ‘modules/share’ under ‘ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs’
18. Apply amps using ‘./ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/bin/apply_amps.sh’

19. Follow steps 6 to 8 from here http://docs.alfresco.com/community/tasks/alf-war-install.html
20. Install MySql
21. Install ImageMagick
1. Removing ImageMagick package

$ sudo apt-get remove imagemagick

2. Installing the build dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall libx11-dev libxext-dev zlib1g-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg-dev libfreetype6-dev libxml2-dev

$ sudo apt-get build-dep imagemagick

3. Downloading ImageMagick sources:

wget https://ayera.dl.sourceforge.net/project/imagemagick/old-sources/7.x/7.0/ImageMagick-7.0.3-10.tar.xz

4. Preparing and building:

$ tar -xzvf ImageMagick-7.0.3-10.tar.xz

$ cd ImageMagick-7.0.3-10

$ ./configure

$ make

$ sudo make install

$ sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib

22. Run solr using command form ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/alfresco-search-services/

./solr/bin/solr start -a "-Dcreate.alfresco.defaults=alfresco,archive"

23. Verify alfresco-global.properties

dir.root=ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/alf_data dir.keystore=${dir.root}/keystore db.username=root db.password=root img.exe=convert img.root=/usr/local/bin db.driver=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver db.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/alfresco6?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useSSL=false db.driver=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver db.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/alfresco_acs?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8 alfresco.context=alfresco alfresco.host=127.0.0.1 alfresco.port=8080 alfresco.protocol=http share.context=share share.host=127.0.0.1 share.port=8080 share.protocol=http alfresco-pdf-renderer.root=ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/alfresco-pdf-renderer alfresco-pdf-renderer.exe=${alfresco-pdf-renderer.root}/alfresco-pdf-renderer index.subsystem.name=solr6 solr.secureComms=none solr.port=8983

24. Start the tomcat ./startup.sh from ‘ALF_INSTALL_DIR/acs/tomcat/bin’