System requirements

The scrips of this CD are UNIX-based. They are tested under Solaris 7 and will be tested on LINUX (2.2). The following programs and tools have been used for testing; it is recommeded to use these versions, if possible, or newer, though for newer systems we did not test.

For Solaris:

For Linux:

Additional requirements

To use the script-based html-interfaces for database access a WWW-Server such as APACHE is required which has to be configured to use CGI-scripts based on perl. The contents of the WEBSPACE/cgi-bin/-directory has to be located in the directory that is accessed by the WWW-server software.

To view html-documents a standard HTML-(Web-)Browser such as Netscape Communicator, Microsoft Internet-Explorer, Opera or Lynx is required. For the documentation no webserver needs to be installed. However, the HTML-documentation requires a browser to interpret   html 3.2, html 4.0, xhtml 1.0 and css 1.x

Other documents (preferably files with the extension .ps) require a Postscript viewer such as ghostview. Most postscript files are packed with the UNIX   gzip-tool which is indicated by the file-extension  .ps.gz. In this case the files need to be unpacked first (on some platforms this might be done automatically whenever the  .ps.gz-files are called.

All other documentation as well as scripts and databases can be viewed using a standard ASCII editor such as GNU-emacs, Microsoft notepad, etc.

Install program packages

Note that as stated in the disclaimer this program comes as is without any warranty. However we recommend the following procedure for installation:

  1. Copy at least all files from the INTERNAL-directory onto your hard-disk
  2. Change to the directory you copied the INTERNAL-directory, change to directory INSTALL
  3. Run INSTALL.sh. Maybe you will need to adjust the path to bash in the first line of INSTALL.sh. If this runs and no error-messages appear, you are all set. If it does not run ...
    1. You might have to modify some files in this directory manually, such as:
      • INSTALLPATH.perl: This file most likely needs some adjustments for your local system; you need to check the path to perl and if your system supports which for perl, bash and gawk otherwise modify it to your local requirements
      • INSTALL_SOURCEPATH.sh: modify the LOCALPATH and source as noted in the file
      • PATHS.conf: if and only if your system does not support the UNIX command which or your standard UNIX-tools cause problems or do not match the requirments mentioned above (and therefore cause problems) you will need to modify this file for your local system.
    2. Run INSTALLVM.perl
    3. Run INSTALL_SOURCEPATH.sh
    4. change the directory ../SOFTWARE, run make clean and after that make
  4. You should be set for working with the packages. (If not only an excellent programmer can help you).

Note: this installation process does not cover the WEBSPACE directory of the CD.


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