(2024.1) Utilities

Java

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

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 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: