From | Jay Clark |
Date | Tue Aug 24 03:34:45 2010 |
Subject | [greenstone-users] please--help needed installing/running greenstone 2.83 on mac OS X v6.4 |
In-Reply-To | (4C6F5D0A-4070807-visi-com) |
Hi David,
Just as a matter of clarification, are you OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard? About running Greenstone on a Mac: Yes, you will need to use the Terminal to start Greenstone each and every time you want to use it. It is fairly simple though. - To open the Terminal, open your Applications folder, then the Utilities folder inside that. The Terminal app will be in that folder.
Hope that helps. Thank you,
MAF Learning Technologies
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I'm very sorry to bother you with this...but I have looked and looked and have not found any documentation or instructions I can understand about running greenstone on the mac. I downloaded greenstone v 2.83 from the G download site, and then installed it on my mac, running OS X 6.4. All I did was click on the greenstone icon and followed the prompts (I let it install in the default folder.../users/myname/greenstone....), let it install the core system, image magick, ghostscript, and enabled the admin pages. This was exactly the same process when I installed on a Windows machine earlier today. However, there the similarity ends. The windows version just required one click to start the program--and it started and worked just fine. On the mac, I don't even know where to look; there is no icon anywhere I can find. I looked at the readme file...and unless I'm really missing something obvious (which very well could be) there's nothing that tells how to start the program on the mac. I have been bouncing around various help pages and the documentation at the NZ site, but everything I find is pretty old, and the few things I find that are within the past year ... well, they feel as if I've walked into the middle of a conversation. At this point I don't even know what I need to know. I get the feeling I'm supposed to know how to use the terminal program on the mac to ... ? do something? to ??? the gs2-server.sh file???? I'm new to the mac, and certainly don't know the tricks, but I've used practically every program on it that I've used on windows, from the usual office & open office suites to music composing software, and this is the first time I am completely lost. Indeed, up until now, everything has run absolutely smoothly. I thought complications like this happened only in windows! So, any help anyone can give, please do. Feel free to reply privately to me at
Thank you, David
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