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   These installation instructions are meant for a systems administrator/DBA
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   or someone who is an advanced computer user.  They are NOT meant for
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   the average computer user.  Please realize that by executing these
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  <p class="header">Minimum Requirements</p> 
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   Installing Metacat requires a server running an SQL92 compliant database
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   (Oracle 8i recommended) with at least 128MB RAM, and a Pentium III class
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   processor or higher.  The amount of disk space required depends on the
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   size of your RDBMS tablespace (which should be at least 10 MB, 
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   however Metacat itself requires only about 1 MB of free space after 
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   installation.  These instructions assume a Linux environment but may
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   work on other UNIX type environments, however this has not been tested.
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  <p class = "header">Additional Required Software</p>
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   The server on which you wish to install Metacat must have the following
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   software installed and running correctly before attempting to install
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   Metacat.
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     <li><a href="http://www.oracle.com">Oracle 8i</a> (or another SQL92
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         compliant RDBMS like Postgres)</li>
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     <li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html">Apache Jakarta-Ant</a>
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     <li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html">Apache Jakarta-Tomcat</a>
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       <p class="emphasis">Note: For a more robust web serving environment, 
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       Apache web server should
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       be installed along with Tomcat and the two should be integrated
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       as described on the Apache web site.</p>
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  <p class="header">Java</p>
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  <p>You'll need a recent Java SDK; j2sdk1.4.2 or later is required.  We haven't 
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  tested with any of the 1.5.x versions yet, so probably best to stay with 1.4.x.
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  Make sure that JAVA_HOME environment variable is properly set and that both
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  java and javac are on your PATH.
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  <p class="header">Oracle 8i or Postgres</p>
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  <p><i>Oracle:</i><br>
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   The Oracle RDBMS must be installed and running as a daemon on the system.
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   In addition the JDBC listener must be enabled.  You can enable it by
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   logging in as your Oracle user and typing the following:
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   <pre>lsnrctl start</pre>
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   Your instance should have a table space of at least 5 MB (10 MB or higher 
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   recommended).  You should also have a username specific to Metacat
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   created and enabled.  This user must have most normal permissions 
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   including CREATE SESSION, CREATE TABLE, CREATE INDEX, CREATE TRIGGER, 
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   EXECUTE PROCEDURE, EXECUTE TYPE, etc.  If an action is unexplainably 
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   rejected by Metacat it is probably because the user permissions are not
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  <p><i>Postgres:</i><br>
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  Windows (using cygwin) and Mac OS X.  Using Fedora Core or RedHat Linux,
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  you can install the rpms for postgres and then run 
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  <code>/etc/init.d/postgresql start</code> in order to start the database.
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  This initializes the data files.  You need to do a bit of configuration
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  to create a database and set up a user account and allow internet access
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  via jdbc.  See the postgres documentation for this, but here is a quick 
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     <li>Switch to the "postgres" user account and edit "data/pg_hba.conf", adding the following line to the file:<br>
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     <code>host   metacat  metacat      127.0.0.1         255.255.255.255   password</code><br>
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     If your host uses IPv6 addresses, you made need this line instead:
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     <code>host   metacat  metacat      ::1               ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff password</code></li>
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     <li>Edit the "data/postgres.conf" file and uncomment and edit the line
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     <code>tcpip_socket = true</code></li>
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     <li>Run <code>createdb metacat</code> to create a new database</li>
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     <li>Run <code>psql metacat</code> to log in using the postgres account and create a new "metacat" user account
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        <li>In postgres, run <code>CREATE USER metacat WITH UNENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'apasswordyoulike';</code></li>
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        <li>This creates a new account called metacat on the database named metacat</li>
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        <li>Note: there are many ways to do this, so others such as using 
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        ENCRYPTED passwords will work fine.</li>
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     <li>Exit the postgres account back to root and restart the postgres 
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     database with <code>/etc/init.d/postgresql restart</code></li>
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     <li>Test logging into the postgres db using the metacat account with 
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     <code>psql -U metacat -W -h localhost metacat</code></li>
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  <p class="header">Ant</p>
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   Ant is a Java based build application similar to Make on UNIX systems.  
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   It takes in installation parameters from a file in the root installation
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   directory named "build.xml".  The Metacat CVS module contains a default
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   build.xml file that may require some modification upon installation.  Ant
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   should be installed on the system and the "ant" executable shell script 
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   should be available in the users path. We note that the current build is 
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   not working with Ant 1.6.x, so you'll need to use an earler version.  We have 
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   successfully used Ant 1.5.1, 1.5.2, and some earlier versions.
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  <p class="header">Tomcat</p>
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    We recommend that you install Tomcat version 5.0.  More details about 
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    Tomcat installation is available <a href=" http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html">here</a>.
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   Once all of the prerequisite software is installed as described above, 
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   the installation of Metacat can begin.  First you must have a current
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   version of the source distribution of Metacat.  You can get it two ways.
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   <a href="http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/xmltodb/">CVS</a>
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  <p><h2>Edit <code>build.properties</code> File</h2></p>
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   Once you have either checked out or unzipped and untarred the source
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   distribution, you can begin the installation process.  Change into the 
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   metacat directory and edit the file called "<code>build.properties</code>".  You will need 
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  The properties that you will likely need to change will include 
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  <code>tomcat</code>, <code>tomcatversion</code>, <code>webapps</code>, 
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  <code>default-style</code>, and <code>administrators</code>. 
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  Properties you will likely need to change:
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      <td><b>Default value and examples of other values</b></td>
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      <td>tomcat</td>
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      <td>The tomcat property is the location in which tomcat is installed.</td>
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          <code>/usr/local/devtools/jakarta-tomcat</code>
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      <td>tomcatversion</td>
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      <td>The tomcatversion property is the version of your Tomcat. You should 
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          <code>/var/www/org.ecoinformatics.knb</code>
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          directory for the servlet and many of the URLs that are used to access
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      <td>server</td>
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      <td>The server property is hostname of for the server on which Metacat is 
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         <code>knb.ecoinformatics.org</code>
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      <td>ldapUrl</td>
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      <td>URL to the LDAP server. The LDAP server is used in the default
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      <td>The JDBC connection string used to connect to the database.</td>
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      <td>The database password that you set up to use Metacat.</td>
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      <td>The datafilepath is the directory to store data files.</td>
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      <td>inlinedatafilepath</td>
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      <td>The inlinedatafilepath is the directory to store inline data that
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      <td>The default-style parameter defines the "style-set" that is to be used
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          by default when the qformat parameter is missing or set to "html"
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          during a query. It is set to "knb", which is one of the styles that 
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      <td>The administrators parameter lists the accounts that are allowed to
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          documents. The list can can contain more than one account separated
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          <code>uid=jones,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org</code>
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   Note that the build file is preconfigured to install Metacat either using 
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   property to be the name of the database target that you wish to use 
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      <td>inst.cgi.dir</td>
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      <td>Installation directory for registry CGI scripts</td>
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      <td>cgi-prefix</td>
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      <td>&nbsp;</td>
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          <code>http://knb.ecoinformatics.org</code>
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      <td>forcereplicationwaitingtime</td>
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      <td>The waiting time before replication is forced to begin after
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          uploading a package. The default value should usually suffice.</td>
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          <code>30000</code>
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          <code>&nbsp;</code>
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      <td>cvsroot</td>
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      <td>CVS access to retrieve latest EML. Only used by
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          developers in building the release.</td>
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          <code><pre>:ext:${env.USER}@cvs.ecoinformatics.org:/cvs</pre></code>
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          <code><pre>:ext:myaccount@cvs.ecoinformatics.org:/cvs</pre></code>
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  <code>metacat/lib/metacat.properties</code>. Under most circumstances,
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  you will not need to modify this file because the properties of interest
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  to you can be controlled by editing <code>build.properties</code> as
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  described above. To learn more about Metacat's additional properties,
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  see <a href="./properties.html">Metacat Properties File</a>.
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   Note: When setting properties, DO NOT add a trailing slash [/] to the end of any paths that are specified.
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  <a name="protocol"></a>
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   <pre><b>ant install</b></pre>
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   <pre><b>ant clean upgrade</b></pre>
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    Name            Null?         Type
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     DOCID          NOT NULL      VARCHAR2(250)
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     ROOTNODEID                   NUMBER(20)
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     DOCNAME                      VARCHAR2(100)
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     DOCTYPE                      VARCHAR2(100)
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     DOCTITLE                     VARCHAR2(1000)
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     USER_OWNER                   VARCHAR2(100)
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     USER_UPDATED                 VARCHAR2(100)
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     SERVER_LOCATION              NUMBER(20)
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     REV                          NUMBER(10)
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     DATE_CREATED                 DATE
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     UPDATED                      NUMBER(1)
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  <p>Once the tables have been created, you should also register the Ecological
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  <p>
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