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[16227]1Title Greenstone digital library software
2
3Purpose A suite of digital library software which includes the ability to
4 serve digital library collections and build new collections
5
6Author New Zealand Digital Library Project
7
8License GNU General Public Licence (Version 2)
[18013]9 Full terms and conditions are in the file "LICENSE.txt"
[16227]10
[18013]11Date December 2008
[16227]12
[18013]13Version 2s2008.12.01
[16227]14
[18013]15Contents: Programs
16 Greenstone library server A cgi program to serve digital library collections
17 Greenstone oaiserver A cgi program to serve collections using the OAI-PMH protocol.
18 Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI)
19 A graphical tool for collection building
20 Greenstone Editor for Metadata Sets (GEMS)
21 A graphical tool for creating and editing metadata sets used by GLI
22
23Contents: Directory Structure
24 bin Executable code
25 cgi-bin CGI scripts
26 collect Collections
27 etc Configuration files, log files, user databases etc
28 gli Librarian Interface
29 images Images and CSS files used by the interface
30 macros Display macros
31 mappings Unicode translation tables
32 perllib Perl modules used for collection building
33
34 If source code is present (from a source release or by adding the source component):
35 common-src Source code and packages used when building collections and at runtime
36 build-src Source code and packages only used when building collections
37 runtime-src Source code and packages only used at runtime
[16227]38
[18013]39Additional Packages
[18035]40 Java Runtime Environment
41 Imagemagick
42 Ghostscript
43 Perl
[16227]44
[18013]45 Documentation and Support
46 Greenstone Website:
47 http://www.greenstone.org
48 Greenstone's main website.
49 Greenstone Wiki:
50 http://wiki.greenstone.org
51 Contains documentation, and links to manuals, tutorials etc...
52 Greenstone Mailing List:
53 https://list.scms.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/greenstone-users (to subscribe)
54 [email protected] (to post)
55 New Zealand Digital Library:
56 http://www.nzdl.org
57 A demonstration site containing lots of collections
58
59
[16227]60Platform
[18013]61 Greenstone runs on Unix, Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 and Mac OS 10.5.2 (Leopard).
62
63
64 The Greenstone Librarian Interface requires version 1.4 or later
65 of the Java Runtime Environment. Java 1.6 is included in the binary
66 release of Greenstone.
[16227]67
68 The Greenstone user interface uses a Web browser capable of Javascript,
69 Tables, and Frames. Browsers that meet these requirements include:
70
71 Netscape Navigator 4.0
72 Internet Explorer 4.0
[18013]73 Mozilla
74 Safari
[16227]75
[18013]76 More recent versions of these browsers should also work (recommended).
[16227]77
78
[18013]79
80Unix
81Source code has been compiled and tested on Linux and Solaris.
[16227]82 Binary code requires an Intel x86-based Linux distribution which
83 includes ELF binary support and supports the GNU C library (glibc 2.0
84 or greater). Distributions that meet these requirements include:
85
86 RedHat 5.1
87 SuSE Linux 6.1
88 Debian 2.1
89 Slackware 4.0
90
91 More recent versions of these distributions should also work.
[18013]92
93 We have tested Greenstone 2 on the following distributions:
94 Ubuntu 8.04 & 8.10
95 Mandriva 2008 Spring
96 OpenSUSE 11
97 Fedora 6 & 9
98 CentOS 5.2
[16227]99
[18013]100Windows
[18035]101Source code can be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, 7 (VS 2003.Net).
[16227]102
[18013]103 Binary code has been tested on 32 bits version of:
104 Windows 2000
105 Windows XP
106 Windows Server 2003
107 Windows Vista
108 Windows Server 2008
[16227]109
[18013]110 Greenstone software (version 2.81 and later) no longer runs on
111 Windows 3.1
112 Windows 95
113 Windows 98
114 Windows Me
115 Windows NT
[16227]116
[18037]117Mac (Binary release limited to Mac OS Leopard)
[18013]118Source code has been compiled with Xcode 3.1 on Intel Mac OS 10.5.2.
119Binary has been tested on Intel Mac OS 10.5.2 (Leopard).
[16227]120
[18013]121However the source code can be compiled with other versions of Mac OS and Xcode,
[18037]122in that case please download Imagemagick and Ghostscript to recompile them from source.
123Please find more information on how to compile Greentone 2 on Mac at this page:
124http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_Greenstone_2_from_source_for_Beginners#Compiling_the_Source
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