For folks in 2670, I hope this helps. For folks outside of 2670, I recommend against using Greenstone Digital Library software, but if you find that you have to, I hope this helps you install it, at least for local use. <\/p>\n
If I find any good tricks for using Greenstone, after it’s installed, I’ll share those, as well. I hope my classmates will do the same. :)<\/p>\n
Assuming the moon’s alignment with Venus was not what did it, here’s how I got Greenstone to run:<\/p>\n
1) I installed VMWare Fusion on my Mac. (This is unnecessary if you already have Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2. Skip to step 3 in that case.)<\/p>\n
2) I installed Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2. No, XP x64 won’t do it; I tried. <\/p>\n
(Steps 1 and 2 were necessary because, to be blunt, I refuse to put this buggy software on the native operating system of my only computer. If something goes horribly wrong in my VM, I can just blow it away, without losing important data.) Please note: I did the rest of these steps before installing anything else on my Windows VM, including Firefox or Office or anything; I can’t promise that this will work with anything other than IE 6, or in any order other than the one I give below; given how many times I went through failed installs, I’ve developed a little bit of irrational superstition about the order of operations…<\/em><\/p>\n 3) I downloaded and installed Java Virtual Machine<\/a> on my computer.<\/p>\n 4) I downloaded and installed Java JDK<\/a>, specifically JDK 6 Update 10 with Java EE<\/em>. There’s some weirdness with Java’s download manager software, but don’t worry overmuch. Just do what it tells you to do.<\/p>\n 5) I downloaded and installed ActivePerl<\/a>. I did what it told me to do and was rewarded with cute lizard icons and a properly-defined Perl PATH.<\/p>\n 6) I downloaded and installed ImageMagick<\/a>, specifically ImageMagick-6.4.5-5-Q16-windows-dll.exe<\/em>. Choose only the default options; don’t add more.<\/strong> Seriously.<\/p>\n