[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Evergreen Server Install

[Jason Stephenson]

Quoting "Harbottle, Joel R" <joel.r.harbottle at gmail.com>:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm wondering if any one knows whether it is possible to natively install
> Evergreen's server on a Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" without any
> emulation.

It should be possible, but it won't necessarily be easy. If you don't  
know how to compile software and possibly tweak code as necessary, I  
do not recommend you try it.

I have tried getting Evergreen to work on a FreeBSD system (very  
similar to Mac OS X under the hood) and gave up after a couple of days  
of tweaking and almost getting it to work and having something else  
fail once I got something to work. It is much easier to get it going  
if you stick to GNU/Linux, particularly Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora.


>
> We currently have a PowerMac G4 which has the recommended amount of RAM for
> Evergreen's server, but it is not capable of running emulation software,
> such as VirtualBox, Parallels or VMware.

A G4 is kind of slow, but for playing around with the server it may be  
adequate. I would not try to do any serious work running everything on  
a single G4.

>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Also, what version of Evergreen would I have to install to be able to get
> the web-based Acquisitions module?

You would need to install rel_1_6 or trunk from SVN to play with acquisitions.


>
> Cheers,
> Joel
>
Cheers,
Jason