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<div class="header1"><p class="emphasis">***Disclaimer***</p></div>
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   These installation instructions are meant for a systems administrator/DBA
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   the average computer user.  Please realize that by executing these
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<div class="header1">Table of Contents</div>
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  <div class="toc">
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    <div class="toc1"><a href="#QuickInstructions">Quick Instructions</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#QuickInstall">Quick Installation</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#QuickUpdate">Quick Update</a></div>
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    <div class="toc1"><a href="#SourceInstall">Installing From Source Code</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#WindowsXP">Windows XP</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#Ubuntu8.04">Ubuntu 8.04</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#MacOSX">Mac OS X</a></div>
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    <div class="toc1"><a href="#PreInstallation">Pre-Installation</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#MinRequirements">Minimum Requirements</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#AdditionalRequiredSoftware">Additional Required Software</a></div>
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    <div class="toc1"><a href="#AdditionalSoftwareSetup">Additional Software Setup</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#AdditionalSoftwareJava">Java</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#AdditionalSoftwareOracle">Oracle</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#AdditionalSoftwarePostgres">PostgreSQL</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#AdditionalSoftwareAnt">Ant</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#AdditionalSoftwareTomcat">Tomcat</a></div>
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    <div class="toc1"><a href="#InstallingMetacat">Installing Metacat</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#InstallDownloadMetacat">Download Metacat Application</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#InstallMetacatWar">Install Metacat War</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#InstallRestartTomcat">Restart Tomcat</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#InstallTroubleshooting">Troubleshooting</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#InstallConfigureMetacat">Configure Metacat</a></div>
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    <div class="toc1"><a href="#UpgradingMetacat">Upgrading Existing Metacat</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#UpgradeStopMetacat">Stop the Running Metacat</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#UpgradeDownloadMetacat">Download Latest Metacat Application</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#UpgradeMetacatWar">Upgrade Metacat War</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#UpgradeRestartTomcat">Restart Tomcat</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#UpgradeTroubleshooting">Troubleshooting</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#UpgradeConfigureMetacat">Configure Metacat</a></div>
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    <div class="toc1"><a href="#Registry">Web Based Registry</a></div>
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<a name="QuickInstructions"></a><div class="header1">Quick Instructions</div>
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  <a name="QuickInstall"></a><div class="header2">Quick Installation</div>
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  <p>These are the installation instructions for a system that has Ubuntu 8.04 installed
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  and has never had Metacat installed on it:</p>
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    <a name="DownloadMetacatInstall"></a><div class="header3">Download Metacat Package</div>
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    <p>Browse to the
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	  <div class="code">metacat-bin-X.X.X.tar.gz</div>
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    <p>where X.X.X is the latest version of Metacat.  Choose to save the file locally.</p>
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    <p>Extract the Metacat package files by typing:</p>
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    <p>You should see a war file and several supporting files.  The location where these files
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    <a name="CreateMetacatDirs"></a><div class="header3">Create Metacat Directories</div>
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    <p>Create the metacat utility base directory by typing:</p>
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      <div class="code">sudo mkdir /var/metacat</div>
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	  <div class="code">sudo chown -R &lt;tomcat_user&gt; /var/metacat</div>
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    <p>where &lt;tomcat_user&gt; is the user that will start Tomcat.  If you are
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	starting Tomcat as the root user, you do not need to run the chown command.</p>
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    <a name="InstallJava"></a><div class="header3">Install Java</div>
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    <p>Install Java by typing:</p>
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      <div class="code">sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jdk</div>
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	<p>hit "ok" then "yes" for license agreement<p>
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   <a name="InstallApache"></a><div class="header3">Install Apache</div>
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	<p>Install Apache and and Mod JK packages by typing:</p>
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      <div class="code">sudo apt-get install apache2</div>
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    <p>Setup Mod JK apache configuration by typing:</p>
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      <div class="code">sudo cp &lt;metacat_package_dir&gt;/jk.conf /etc/apache2/mods-available</div>
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      <div class="code">sudo cp &lt;metacat_package_dir&gt;/workers.properties /etc/apache2</div>
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      <div class="code">sudo cp &lt;metacat_package_dir&gt;/knb /etc/apache2/sites-available</div>
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      <div class="code">sudo a2ensite knb</div>
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    <p>If you are going to make use of an LSID server, set up and enable the authority  service site
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      <div class="code">sudo a2ensite authority</div>
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    <p>Restart apache to bring in changes by typing:</p>
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    <a name="InstallTomcat"></a><div class="header3">Install Tomcat</div>
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    <p>Install Tomcat 5.5 by typing:</p>
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      <div class="code">sudo mv /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5.bak</div>
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    <p>Install PostgreSQL by typing:</p>
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	<p>Log back out of postgreSQL:</p>
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	  <div class="code">\q</div>
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    <a name="InstallMetacatWAR"></a><div class="header3">Install Metacat War</div>
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    <p>Copy the war file to Tomcat:</p>
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    <a name="ConfigureMetacatInstall"></a><div class="header3">Configure Metacat</div>
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    <p>Refer to the documentation on <a href="./metacatconfigure.html">Metacat Confguration</a>
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    to complete your installation of Metacat.</p>
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    <a name="DownloadMetacatUpdate"></a><div class="header3">Download Metacat Package</div>
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    <p>where X.X.X is the latest version of Metacat.  Choose to save the file locally.</p>
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    <p>Extract the Metacat package files by typing:</p>
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<a name="SourceInstall"></a><div class="header1">Installing From Source Code</div>
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<p>These documents are meant to outline the metacat installation process on specific platforms. They are
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<strong><em>not</em></strong> a substitute for the below instructions and only meant as a supplemental guideline. </p>
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  <a name="WindowsXP"></a><div class="header2">Windows XP</div>
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    <p> See the <a href="os_specific/install_metacat_windows.html">Windows XP installation instructions</a>.</p>
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  <a name="Ubuntu8.04"></a><div class="header2">Ubuntu 8.04</div>
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    <p> See the <a href="os_specific/install_metacat_ubuntu.html">Ubuntu 8.04 installation instructions</a>.</p>
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    <p> See the <a href="os_specific/install_metacat_mac.html">Mac OS X installation instructions</a>.</p>
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  <a name="MinRequirements"></a><div class="header2">Minimum Requirements</div>
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   (Oracle 8i or Postgresql 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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   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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  <a name="AdditionalRequiredSoftware"></a><div class="header2">Additional Required Software</div>
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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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  <a name="AdditionalSoftwareJava"></a><div class="header2">Java</div>
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  <p>You'll need a recent Java SDK; J2SE 1.4.2 or later is required.  The latest metacat release
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  <a name="AdditionalSoftwareOracle"></a><div class="header2">Oracle 8i</div>
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  <p>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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   recommended).  You should also have a username specific to Metacat
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   correctly set.</p>
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  <p>PostgreSQL can be easily installed on most linux distributions and on
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  you can install the rpms for postgres and then run </p>
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     <code>host   metacat  metacat      127.0.0.1         255.255.255.255   password</code><br>
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     <code>host   metacat  metacat      ::1               ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff password</code></li>
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     starting with "tcpip_socket" so that it reads
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  <p>
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   Ant is a Java based build application similar to Make on UNIX systems.
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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. The latest metacat release was tested with
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   Ant 1.6.5. <!-- 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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    Install Tomcat into the directory of your choice. The directory in which
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    you install Tomcat itself will be referred to as the "$CATALINA_HOME".
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    We recommend that you install Tomcat version 5.5.  More details about
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<a name="InstallingMetacat"></a><div class="header1">Installing Metacat</div>
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  <a name="protocol"></a>
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  <p>This section is only for a fresh installation. If you are upgrading an existing Metacat, please skip
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  this section and go to the next one - <a href="metacatinstall.html#Upgrade">Upgrading Existing Metacat</a>
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  <a name="InstallDownloadMetacat"></a><div class="header2">Download Metacat Application</div>
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    <p>Browse to the
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