This is a step-by-step guide to install Documentum 23.2 in WSL2 using the Arch Linux image with PostgreSQL 15.2. This is probably the smallest possible installation you can do (considering that Documentum binaries do not work on Alpine) and it is obviously totally unsupported 😀
Initial Configuration
After installing the WSL2 Arch distribution from the Microsoft Store, we need to change the keyboard locale and update/install some packages:
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~] sudo vim /etc/locale.gen
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~] sudo locale-gen
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~] sudo pacman -Syu
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~] sudo pacman -S tcl expect ttf-dejavu libxtst unzip inetutils net-tools libxrender postgresql core/libxcrypt-compat unixodbc git freetype2-docs fontconfig
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~] sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.3.0.0 /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2
PostgreSQL Configuration
First we need to configure PostgreSQL:
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~] sudo mkdir /run/postgresql
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~] sudo chown postgres:postgres /run/postgresql
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~] sudo -iu postgres
[postgres@aldago-desktop ~]$ initdb --locale $LANG -E UTF8 -D '/var/lib/postgres/data/'
[postgres@aldago-desktop ~]$ echo "host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5" >> /var/lib/postgres/data/pg_hba.conf
[postgres@aldago-desktop ~]$ echo "listen_addresses='*'" >> /var/lib/postgres/data/postgresql.conf
[postgres@aldago-desktop ~]$ pg_ctl -D /var/lib/postgres/data/ start
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~]$ sudo passwd postgres
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: password updated successfully
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~]$ psql -U postgres
psql (15.2)
Type "help" for help.
postgres=# \password postgres
Enter new password for user "postgres":
Enter it again:
postgres=# exit
Next, we need to install yay in order to install psqlodbc:
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~] git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~] cd yay
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~] makepkg -si
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~] yay -S psqlodbc
And finally, we can configure the odbc connection:
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~] sudo vim /etc/odbc.ini
[MyPostgres]
Description=PostgreSQL
Driver=PostgreSQL
Database=postgres
Servername=aldago-desktop
UserName=postgres
Password=dmadmin
Port=5432
Protocol=12
ReadOnly=No
RowVersioning=No
ShowSystemTables=No
ShowOidColumn=No
FakeOidIndex=No
UpdateableCursors=Yes
DEBUG=Yes
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~] sudo vim /etc/odbcinst.ini
[PostgreSQL]
Driver = /usr/lib/psqlodbcw.so
Driver64 = /usr/lib/psqlodbcw.so
Setup64 = /usr/lib/libodbcpsqlS.so
FileUsage = 1
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~]$ isql -v MyPostgres
+---------------------------------------+
| Connected! |
| |
| sql-statement |
| help [tablename] |
| echo [string] |
| quit |
| |
+---------------------------------------+
SQL> quit
Documentum Server
First, we need to create the DB folder:
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~]$ sudo -iu postgres
[postgres@aldago-desktop ~]$ mkdir /var/lib/postgres/data/db_dctm232_dat.dat
[postgres@aldago-desktop ~]$ exit
The Documentum folders and JDK:
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~]$ sudo mkdir -p /opt/documentum/sw && sudo mkdir -p /opt/documentum/product/23.2
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~]$ sudo chown -R dmadmin:dmadmin /opt/documentum
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop documentum]$ wget https://github.com/adoptium/temurin17-binaries/releases/download/jdk-17.0.6%2B10/OpenJDK17U-jdk_x64_linux_hotspot_17.0.6_10.tar.gz
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop documentum]$ tar -xvf OpenJDK17U-jdk_x64_linux_hotspot_17.0.6_10.tar.gz
Add environment variables to .bash_profile:
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop documentum]$ vim ~/.bash_profile
DOCUMENTUM=/opt/documentum
export DOCUMENTUM
DM_HOME=$DOCUMENTUM/product/23.2
export DM_HOME
DM_JMS_HOME=$DOCUMENTUM/tomcat9.0.71
export DM_JMS_HOME
POSTGRESQL_HOME=/usr
export POSTGRESQL_HOME
JAVA_HOME=$DOCUMENTUM/jdk-17.0.6+10
export JAVA_HOME
JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS="-Djava.locale.providers=COMPAT,SPI"
export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS
PATH=$PATH:$DM_HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:$POSTGRESQL_HOME/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin
export PATH
LC_ALL=C
export LC_ALL
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/lib:/lib64:$POSTGRESQL_HOME/lib:$DM_HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/lib/server:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export DM_CRYPTO_MIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH=8
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~]$ source ~/.bash_profile
Reserve ports and configure limits.conf:
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~]$ sudo vim /etc/services
dctm232 50000/tcp # dctm 23.2 repo
dctm232_s 50001/tcp # dctm 23.2 repo
[dmadmin@aldago-desktop ~]$ sudo vim /etc/security/limits.conf
dmadmin – core -1
And now you can simply install content server normally 🙂
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