Alfresco Community Edition is an open-source enterprise content management system available for free. It helps you manage and store your documents, images, and other files in a secure environment. This tutorial will help you install and configure Alfresco Community Edition on your Linux Mint system.
Before starting, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
To download Alfresco Community Edition, go to the official website https://www.alfresco.com/products/community/download. Choose the Linux distribution that matches your system's architecture.
First, update the package repository, and then install the required dependencies:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libfontconfig
sudo apt install libfreetype6
After downloading the archive, navigate to the directory where the archive is stored and extract the contents:
tar -xvzf alfresco-community-installer-201911-EA-linux-x64.bin
To start the installation process, run the following command:
sudo ./alfresco-community-installer-201911-EA-linux-x64.bin
Follow the installation wizard's instructions to set up Alfresco Community Edition.
After the installation is complete, navigate to the installation directory, and start Alfresco Community Edition:
cd /opt/alfresco-community/
./alfresco.sh start
Now that Alfresco Community Edition is installed and running, you can access it through your web browser. Open your web browser, and go to the following address:
http://localhost:8080/share
You should now see the Alfresco Community Edition login page.
In this tutorial, you have learned how to install and configure Alfresco Community Edition on your Linux Mint system. Now, you can start using Alfresco Community Edition to store, manage, and share files with your team.
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