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Greenstone - what the heck is Greenstone?

Offline cbacani

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Greenstone - what the heck is Greenstone?
« on: May 02, 2007, 09:59:49 PM »
Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM.

The aim of the Greenstone software is to empower users, particularly in universities, libraries, and other public service institutions, to build their own digital libraries.

Anybody out there have any idea how to install this amazing program on a SME server?    http://www.greenstone.org/cgi-bin/library

Thanks in advance.
Carl

Offline cactus

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Greenstone - what the heck is Greenstone?
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2007, 06:42:43 PM »
It would help if their FAQ not only held the questions, but also the answers :-)
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than its worth ~ Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

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Greenstone - what the heck is Greenstone?
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2007, 09:20:53 PM »
cactus it would also help if you'd click on the Install Greenstone title.  :lol:
But as we all have some lazy days http://greenstonewiki.cs.waikato.ac.nz/wiki/index.php/Installing_Greenstone

I did the job of clicking on the title for you but i can't click on my link as well so you're flying solo on this one. :)
"It should just work" if it doesn't report it. Thanks!

Offline cbacani

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Greenstone
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2007, 12:53:15 AM »
Quote from: "bpivk"
cactus it would also help if you'd click on the Install Greenstone title.  :lol:
But as we all have some lazy days http://greenstonewiki.cs.waikato.ac.nz/wiki/index.php/Installing_Greenstone

I did the job of clicking on the title for you but i can't click on my link as well so you're flying solo on this one. :)


I thought that figuring out how Hylafax worked was hard but Greenstone has me beat. This package also requires java SDK, perl and a few other goodies before you can get to the install.

As we used to say in the Air Force ' HELP' Please.

Carl