Installing Greenstone3 for OS X users

Installing Greenstone3 for OS X users

From GreenstoneWiki

requirements

Java 1.4 or greater (tick) Set the environment variable JAVA_HOME 

sp:~/greenstone3 spdegabrielle$ sudo emacs /etc/profile

My current /etc/profile 

#For Tomcat
export JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home
export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat
export JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx512M -Xms64M -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"

Ant 1.6.2 or later

  • install XCode tools from the apple developer site 
ant -version
Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on September 12 2006

GDBM...

http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/gdbm.html follow the instructions at http://greenstone.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Greenstone#Darwin.2FMac_OS_X you will also need to add the path to the gdbm.installed.path property (in build.properties)

Install Procedure 

svn co http://svn.greenstone.org/greenstone3/trunk greenstone3
{wait for it...}
cd greenstone3/
ant prepare
{read then agree to default build settings y}

hopefully: 

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 6 minutes 6 seconds

see if this works... 

ant install