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(2024.1) Utilities

Owned by Brian Dixon
Last updated: Apr 02, 2024
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Java

The Sun JDK is required for the Crystal Reports interface. Download and install from Oracle .

PDF Generator

  • Download the appropriate static binary from http://wkhtmltopdf.org/

  • If using a .tar file. Extract and place in /usr/bin/

  • If using a .rpm file, upload the file to the server and run something like:

    yum localinstall wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-centos6-amd64.rpm



  • Create a symlink in /usr/bin to the executable:

  • Update the file permissions

    chmod 755 on the new file



  • run a test from the application and check the log for errors

    • Installing the wrong version will cause it to throw errors

    • selinux may stop the execution

  • Update the PCR-360 Configuration to specify the path to the converter.

    // this is the default path - only change this if it is different constants.PDF_CONVERTER_PATH = "/usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf-amd64"



Install Utilities for Knowledge Base

Install some other utilities that are used in the Knowledge Base

Some of the indexing tools on RHEL/CentOS are not included in the default RHEL/CentOS repositories so, you need to add a new repo.

This will add the rpmforge repo to yum; this URL may need to be updated if it gets too old…



(may be already installed. Might need aspell-en which can be found here: