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Ref: http://greenstone.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Greenstone3_for_Greenstone2_Users

Background: to educate myself I am working towards both a Win/NT and an Ubuntu Linux Greenstone3 installation.  What follows identifies a problem with moving a prior Greenstone 2.72 collection to the Win/NT Greenstone3 service.  The Win/NT Greenstone3 installation seems to have been satisfactory, with a correct Preferences setup.

My gsdl 2.72 installation is at "E:Program FilesGreenstone"
My gsdl 3    installation is at "Y:gsdlGreenstone3"

The problem occurred during execution of the final step of the "Moving Greenstone2 collections to Greenstone3 ... prefer to just run the convert_coll_from_gs2.pl conversion script" routine.  The tail end of my console file reads:

Y:gsdlGreenstone3>gs2buildbinwindowsperlbinperl.exe binscriptconvert_co ll.Jrom_gs2.pl —collectdir "Y:Greenstone3websiteslocalsitecollect" SnobolTest

GSDLHOME not set
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at binscriptconeert_coll rom_gs2.pl line 10.
Y:gsdlGreenstone3>

A Web search for "GSDLHOME" exposed <http://clare.stfrancis.edu/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.exe?e=status-000-00---0--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-select---00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=status&p=gsdlsite>, which suggests that a file "gsdlsite.cfg" should exist, but none was found in the Greenstone3 directory.  (There is such a file in my Greenstone2 directory.)

(1) What should I do now?
(2) Presuming that this includes generating a "gsdlsite.cfg" file manually, into what directory should this be put?  And what should its variables be set to.

(3) Could it be that your "Moving Greenstone2 collections to Greenstone3" documentation is incomplete?  Or that your "convert_coll_from_gs2.pl" script is incorrect?  Or both?  If so, I recommend fixes.

Cheerio, Henry
 
H.M. Gladney, Ph.D.  http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney