Installing EPrints 3 on OS X - Revision history

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk: Added out of date warning

2017-09-06T11:20:01Z

Added out of date warning

2009-09-22T16:54:16Z

A little premature with the notes. Still needs fine tuning. Undo revision 7584 by Mmr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Talk)

2009-09-22T16:08:53Z

2007-11-29T11:05:04Z

‎Downloading EPrints

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2007-11-29T10:58:33Z

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‎Perl modules

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‎Applications

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‎Applications

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‎Applications

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		+	{{Out_of_Date\|These instructions have not been updated since 2009 and are still considered a work in progress. It is unlikely they will work for the latest versions of Mac OS X.}}
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	http://www.eprints.org/documentation/handbook/osx.php		http://www.eprints.org/documentation/handbook/osx.php

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 ==Downloading EPrints==
-EPrints can be downloaded from the [http://files.eprints.org/view/type/release.html releases page]. You should choose the latest stable version, i.e. nothing marked with 'alpha', 'beta', 'release candidate' or 'RC', and download this to the home directory of the eprints user (/opt/eprints3 if you are following the
+EPrints can be downloaded from the [http://files.eprints.org/view/type/release.html releases page]. You should choose the latest stable version, i.e. nothing marked with 'alpha', 'beta', 'release candidate' or 'RC', and download this to the home directory of the eprints user (/opt/eprints3).
 ==Prerequisites==

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-'''Bold text'''http://www.eprints.org/documentation/handbook/osx.php
+http://www.eprints.org/documentation/handbook/osx.php
 Notes:
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   perl perlmodules.pl
 This should download and install all of the required Perl modules and their dependencies. You may be prompted to configure CPAN at this stage if you have not already done so.
 [[Category:Installation]]

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	'''N.B.''' This document is currently a work in progress - you should be able to get by with the installation instructions above for the time being.		'''N.B.''' This document is currently a work in progress - you should be able to get by with the installation instructions above for the time being.
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		+	==Creating a user and group for EPrints==
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		+	'''Note:''' This document assumes that you have used the same username, group name and home directory as listed in this section. If you choose to use different values (not recommended) then you will need to remember to use those at the appropriate places.
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		+	==Downloading EPrints==
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		+	EPrints can be downloaded from the [http://files.eprints.org/view/type/release.html releases page]. You should choose the latest stable version, i.e. nothing marked with 'alpha', 'beta', 'release candidate' or 'RC', and download this to the home directory of the eprints user (/opt/eprints3 if you are following the

	==Prerequisites==		==Prerequisites==

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   export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/
-Once these commands have been executed, change to the location where you extracted eprints and run the following command:
+Once these commands have been executed, change to the directory where you extracted eprints and run the following command:
   perl perlmodules.pl
 This should download and install all of the required Perl modules and their dependencies. You may be prompted to configure CPAN at this stage if you have not already done so.
 [[Category:Installation]]

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 General application prerequisites for EPrints include:
 * Apache Web Server 2 (preferably 2.2.x)
-* MySQL (preferably 5.0 or later - it is possible to use MySQL 4 but not recommended)
+* MySQL (preferably 5.0 or later - it is possible (but not recommended) to use MySQL 4)
 * PHP (preferably 5.0 or later)
 * mod_perl 2