Governance Services is installed by applying two AMP files to an existing Alfresco Community Edition installation.

You can download the Alfresco Governance Services distribution from Alfresco Nexus repository. Search for “alfresco-governance-services-community” and pick the version that closest matches your installation.

The Governance Services Community Edition distribution zip contains the following files:

Note: Install the AMPs manually using the Module Management Tool (MMT), rather than using the apply_amps tool.

1. Stop the Alfresco Community Edition server.

2. Delete the tomcat\webapps\alfresco and tomcat\webapps\share folders in the Alfresco Community Edition installation directory.

   Deleting these directories forces Tomcat to read the edited WAR files when Alfresco Community Edition is restarted.

   Note: If you are using non-Windows systems, such as Mac OS X and Linux, you’ll need to replace the backslashes by forward slashes in directory paths.

3. Copy the AMP files to the Alfresco amps and amps_share directories.

   • Copy the alfresco-governance-services-community-repo-23.2.x.xxx.amp file to the Alfresco amps directory.
   • Copy the alfresco-governance-services-community-share-23.2.x.xxx.amp file to the Alfresco amps_share directory.

4. Change into the root of the Alfresco Community Edition installation directory. Directories specified in the following procedures are relative to this directory.

5. Run the following commands to install the AMP files:

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    java -jar bin\alfresco-mmt.jar install amps\alfresco-governance-services-community-repo-23.2.x.xxx.amp tomcat\webapps\alfresco.war
   

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    java -jar bin\alfresco-mmt.jar install amps_share\alfresco-governance-services-community-share-23.2.x.xxx.amp tomcat\webapps\share.war
   

   Replace x.xxx with the exact versions provided in the Governance Services Community Edition distribution zip.

6. Start the Alfresco Community Edition server.

7. Check the AMP files have been installed successfully, using these commands:

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    java -jar bin\alfresco-mmt.jar list tomcat\webapps\alfresco.war
   

   and

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    java -jar bin\alfresco-mmt.jar list tomcat\webapps\share.war
   

8. Start Share by browsing to:

   http://<your-server-name>:<port number>/share

   Note: When you install Governance Services the Security Controls features are installed at the same time.

Final step before you can start with Records Management is to create the Records Management site.