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Just my $0.02 if it's of any use: My experience has been that using the release from Alfresco (vs. the canonical repository) is actually better. I ran into problems (which unfortunately I did not keep track of) when using the repository version, and basically had to overwrite it with the alfresco 3.2r release. Also, the canonical repository of Alfresco does not (AFAICT) keep up with the latest alfresco release.