ColdFusion 11 – PDF Service prerequisites on Linux

If you are planning to use PDF services on a Linux box with ColdFusion 11, you would need a set of packages to be preinstalled, and would also need to import a set of fonts onto your machine. Though this is called out specifically in the Adobe Live Cycle Documentation, I decided to post a set of out-of-the-box commands that get these prerequisites in place without hassles. These commands use the yum or apt-get package managers to install prerequisites and have been tested on RHEL 6+ and Ubuntu 13.10+.


RedHat, and everything YUM powered,
Execute the below commands from a terminal, or run it from a script file on an RHEL, or any machine with valid yum configurations.

yum -y install glibc.i686 zlib.i686 libX11.i686 ia32-libs expat.i686 freetype.i686 nss-softokn.i686 libxcb.i686 libXau.i686 libXext.i686 libSM.i686 libXrandr.i686 libXrender.i686 libXinerama.i686
yum -y groupinstall "X Window System"
wget http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/font/ibm-type1/snapshot/font-ibm-type1-1.0.3.tar.gz
tar -zxvf font-ibm-type1-1.0.3.tar.gz
cd font-ibm-type1-1.0.3
mv * /usr/share/fonts/
cd ..
rm -rf font-ibm-type1-1.0.3
rm -rf font-ibm-type1-1.0.3.tar.gz

Ubuntu
Execute the below commands from a terminal, or run it from a script file on an Ubuntu with apt-get repositories configured.

#!/bin/sh

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

# Add dependencies for PDF
dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt-get update

apt-get --assume-yes install glibc-2.*
apt-get --assume-yes install lib32z1
apt-get --assume-yes install lib32ncurses5
apt-get --assume-yes install libbz2-1.0:i386
apt-get --assume-yes install lib32z1-dev
apt-get --assume-yes install libbz2-dev:i386
apt-get --assume-yes install zlib1g
apt-get --assume-yes install libx11*
apt-get --assume-yes install lib32z1
apt-get --assume-yes install lib32ncurses5
apt-get --assume-yes install libbz2-1.0:i386
apt-get --assume-yes install libexpat1
apt-get --assume-yes install libexpat1:i386
apt-get --assume-yes install libfreetype6:i386
apt-get --assume-yes install x-window-*
apt-get --assume-yes install libnss-mdns:i386
apt-get --assume-yes install libxcb1-dev:i386
apt-get --assume-yes install libxcb1-dev
apt-get --assume-yes install libxext6
apt-get --assume-yes install libxext6:i386
apt-get --assume-yes install libsm6
apt-get --assume-yes install libsm6:i386
apt-get --assume-yes install libxrandr2
apt-get --assume-yes install libxrandr2:i386
apt-get --assume-yes install libxrender1
apt-get --assume-yes install libxrender1:i386
apt-get --assume-yes install libxinerama1
apt-get --assume-yes install libxinerama1:i386
wget --no-check-certificate  https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/font/ibm-type1/snapshot/font-ibm-type1-1.0.3.tar.gz
tar -zxvf font-ibm-type1-1.0.3.tar.gz
cd font-ibm-type1-1.0.3
mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/
mv * /usr/share/fonts/
cd ..
rm -rf font-ibm-type1-1.0.3
rm -rf font-ibm-type1-1.0.3.tar.gz

rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

Hope this helps!

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[8th May 2018]
Updated source for Ubuntu. Breaking up commands seems to be necessary.

[4th Jul 2017]
Updated source for Ubuntu based on the comments by, KnuBew and David Belanger.
> dpkg –add-architecture i386
> apt-get update