April 27, 2024

Alfresco tips and tricks – #12 Libraries necessary to support LibreOffice were not found

Starting from version 4.2, the Alfresco setup wizard validates whether or not some required libraries to LibreOffice support are present on some GNU/Linux distributions. When you try to run the alfresco installer, if libraries like libfontconfig.so or libXrender.so are missing, you will get a warning message like this:

Some or all of the libraries necessary to support LibreOffice were not found on your system: fontconfig libSM libICE libXrender libXext. For more information, please refer to http://docs.alfresco.com/4.2/topic/com.alfresco.enterprise.doc/concepts/install-lolibfiles.html

To succesfully complete the Alfresco setup wizard you need to manually install the required libraries. Here is the commands for the supported distributions.


ALFRESCO 4.2 – DEBIAN 8

sudo apt-get install libice6 libsm6 libxt6 libxrender1 libfontconfig1 libcups2 libglu1-mesa libdbus-glib-1-2

ALFRESCO 4.2 – SUSE 11 64

sudo zypper install xorg-x11-libICE xorg-x11-libSM xorg-x11-libXrender xorg-x11-libXext fontconfig cups-libs

ALFRESCO 4.2 – REDHAT 6, CENTOS 6

yum install libXrender libSM libICE libXext libGLU fontconfig cups-libs

ALFRESCO 4.2 – UBUNTU 10 amd64

After lib install, copy or create a sym-link to the original path into a folder ‘x86_64-linux-gnu’ 

sudo apt-get install libice6 libsm6 libxt6 libxrender1 libfontconfig1 libcups2
cd /usr/lib
sudo mkdir x86_64-linux-gnu
sudo cp libICE.so.6 libSM.so.6 libXext.so.6 libXrender.so.1 libfontconfig.so.1 x86_64-linux-gnu

ALFRESCO 4.2 – UBUNTU 12 amd64

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libice6 libsm6 libxt6 libxrender1 libfontconfig1 libcups2

ALFRESCO 5.2 – UBUNTU 16 amd64

The libgl1-mesa-glx library is originally located into a folder named ‘mesa’. You need to create a copy or a sym-link to the origin.

sudo apt-get install libice6 libsm6 libxt6 libxrender1 libfontconfig1 libcups2 libglu1-mesa libcairo2 libgl1-mesa-glx
cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
ln -s mesa/libGL.so.1 ./libGL.so.1

## Check installed libraries
sudo ldconfig -vp | grep  "fontconfig\|libSM\|libICE\|libXrender\|libXext\|libcups\|libGLU\|libcairo\|libgl"

ALFRESCO 5.2 – REDHAT 7, CENTOS 7

yum install libXrender libXext libSM libICE libGLU fontconfig cups-libs cairo mesa-libGL

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