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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="#QuickInstallation">Quick Installation</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#DownloadMetacatInstall">Download Metacat Package</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#CreateDirs">Create Metacat Directories</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#InstallJava">Install Java</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#InstallApache">Install Apache</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#InstallTomcat">Install Tomcat</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#InstallPostgres">Install PostgreSQL Database</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#QuickInstallMetacatWar">Install Metacat War</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#QuickInstallLsidWar">Install LSID War</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#ConfigureMetacatInstall">Configure Metacat</a></div>
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    <div class="toc1"><a href="#QuickUpdate">Quick Update</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#DownloadMetacatUpdate">Download Metacat Package</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#BackupApplication">Backup Existing Metacat Installation</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#QuickUpdateMetacatWar">Update Metacat War</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#QuickUpdateLsidWar">Update LSID War</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#ConfigureMetacatUpdate">Configure Metacat</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="#AdditionalSoftwarePostgreSQL">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="#DownloadingMetacat">Download Metacat and Get War File</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#DownloadMetacatBinary">Download Metacat Binary and Create War File</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#DownloadMetacatSource">Download Metacat Source and Create War File</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="#CreateMetacatDirs">Create Metacat Directories</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#InstallMetacatWar">Install Metacat War</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="toc1"><a href="#RestartTomcat">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="QuickInstallation"></a><div class="header1">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="header2">Download Metacat Package</div>
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    <li>Browse to the
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      <a href="http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/download.html">KNB Software Download Page</a>.
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      In the Metacat section, select the link that looks like:
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	  <div class="code">metacat-bin-X.X.X.tar.gz</div>
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    where X.X.X is the latest version of Metacat.  Choose to save the file locally.</li>
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    <li>Extract the Metacat package files by typing:
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      <div class="code">tar -xvzf metacat-bin-X.X.X.tar.gz</div></li>
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    <li>You should see a war file and several supporting files.  The location where these files
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    were extracted will be refered to as the the &lt;metacat_package_dir&gt; for the remainder
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    of this documentation.</li>
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  <a name="CreateDirs"></a><div class="header2">Create Metacat Directories</div>
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    <li>Create the metacat utility base directory by typing:
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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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    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.</li>
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  <a name="InstallJava"></a><div class="header2">Install Java</div>
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    <li>Install Java by typing:
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      <div class="code">sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jdk</div></li>
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	<li>hit "ok" then "yes" for license agreement</li>
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  <a name="InstallApache"></a><div class="header2">Install Apache</div>
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    <li>Install Apache and and Mod JK packages by typing:
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      <div class="code">sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-jk</div></li>
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    <li>Set up Mod JK apache configuration by typing:
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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></li>
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    <li>Enable Apache Mod JK by typing:
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      <div class="code">sudo a2dismod jk</div>
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      <div class="code">sudo a2enmod jk</div></li>
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    <li>Set up and enable knb (Metacat) site configurations by typing:
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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></li>
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    <li>If you want to run an LSID server along with the Metacat server, set up and enable the authority service site
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      configurations by typing:
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      <div class="code">sudo cp &lt;metacat_package_dir&gt;/authority /etc/apache2/sites-available</div>
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      <div class="code">sudo a2ensite authority</div></li>
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    <li>Restart apache to bring in changes by typing:
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      <div class="code">sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload</div></li>
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  <a name="InstallTomcat"></a><div class="header2">Install Tomcat</div>
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    <li>Install Tomcat 5.5 by typing:
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    <li>Install Metacat friendly Tomcat startup script by typing:
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      <div class="code">sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 stop</div>
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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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      <div class="code">sudo cp &lt;metacat_package_dir&gt;/tomcat5.5 /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5</div>
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      <div class="code">sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5</div></li>
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    <li>Install PostgreSQL by typing:</p>
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      <div class="code">sudo apt-get install postgresql</div></li>
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    <li>Change to postgres user:
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      <div class="code">sudo su - postgres</div></li>
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    <li>Setup empty Metacat database instance editing the postgreSQL configuration file:
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      <div class="code">gedit /etc/postgresql/8.3/main/pg_hba.conf</div></li>
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      <div class="code">host metacat metacat 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 password</div></li>
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    <li>Save the file, then create the metacat instance:
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      <div class="code">createdb metacat</div></li>
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	  <div class="code">psql metacat</div>
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	and create the metacat user by typing at the psql prompt:
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	  <div class="code">CREATE USER metacat WITH UNENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'your_password';</div>
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	where your_password is whatever password you would like for the metacat user.</li>
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	<li>Restart the PostgreSQL database to bring in changes:
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	  <div class="code">/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 restart</div></li>
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	<li>Log out of the postgres user account by typing:
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	  <div class="code">logout</div></li>
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	<li>Test the installation and metacat account by typing:
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	  <div class="code">psql -U metacat -W -h localhost metacat</div></li>
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  <a name="QuickInstallMetacatWar"></a><div class="header2">Install Metacat War</div>
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	  <div class="code">sudo cp &lt;metacat_package_dir&gt;/knb.war /usr/share/tomcat5.5/webapps</div></li>
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	  <div class="code">sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 restart</div></li>
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    <li>If you want to run an LSID server along with the Metacat server, copy the
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	<li>Restart Tomcat:
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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="QuickUpdate"></a><div class="header1">Quick Update</div>
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  <p>These are the instructions for a system that already has Metacat installed on it,
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  but needs a Metacat upgrade:</p>
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  <a name="DownloadMetacatUpdate"></a><div class="header2">Download Metacat Package</div>
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      <a href="http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/download.html">KNB Software Download Page</a>.
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	  <div class="code">metacat-bin-X.X.X.tar.gz</div>
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    where X.X.X is the latest version of Metacat.  Choose to save the file locally.</li>
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      <div class="code">tar -xvzf metacat-bin-X.X.X.tar.gz</div>
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    You should see a war file and several supporting files.  The location where these files
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    were extracted will be refered to as the the &lt;metacat_package_dir&gt; for the remainder
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	  <div class="code">cp &lt;web_app_dir&gt;/knb.war &lt;web_app_dir&gt;/knb.war.&lt;yyyymmdd&gt;</div>
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	Of course, you can use any backup strategy you like (or none at all).</p>
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  <a name="QuickUpdateMetacatWar"></a><div class="header2">Update Metacat War</div>
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  <a name="ConfigureMetacatUpdate"></a><div class="header2">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="MinRequirements"></a><div class="header2">Minimum Requirements</div>
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   Installing Metacat requires a server running an SQL92 compliant database
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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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   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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  <a name="AdditionalRequiredSoftware"></a><div class="header2">Additional Required Software</div>
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  <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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<a name="AdditionalSoftwareSetup"></a><div class="header1">Additional Software Setup</div>
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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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  has been tested most extensively with <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/">J2SE 5.0</a>
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  and this is the recommended version.
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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>
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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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   logging in as your Oracle user and typing the following:</p>
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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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   correctly set.</p>
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  <a name="AdditionalSoftwarePostgreSQL"></a><div class="header2">PostgreSQL</div>
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  <p>PostgreSQL can be easily installed on most linux distributions and on
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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 </p>
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  to install postgres:
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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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  <ul>
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     <li>Switch to the "postgres" user account
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       <div class="code">sudo su - postgres</div></li>
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     <li>Edit "data/pg_hba.conf", adding the following line to the file:<br>
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       <div class="code">host   metacat  metacat      127.0.0.1         255.255.255.255   password</div>
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       <div class="code">host   metacat  metacat      ::1               ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff password</div></li>
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     <li>If you are using Postgresql pre-8.0, you must edit the "data/postgres.conf" file and uncomment and edit the line
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     starting with "tcpip_socket" so that it reads
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       <div class="code">tcpip_socket = true</div></li>
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     <li>Create metacat database by typing:
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       <div class="code">createdb metacat</div></li>
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     <li>Log in using the postgres account and create a new "metacat" user account by typing:
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       <div class="code">psql metacat</div>
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     <ul>
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        <li>In postgres, run <div class="code">CREATE USER metacat WITH UNENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'apasswordyoulike';</div></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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     database by typing:
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       <div class="code">/etc/init.d/postgresql restart</div></li>
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     <li>Test logging into the postgres db using the metacat account with
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     the following command:
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       <div class="code">psql -U metacat -W -h localhost metacat</div></li>
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  </ul>
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  <a name="AdditionalSoftwareAnt"></a><div class="header2">Ant</div>
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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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   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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   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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    We recommend that you install Tomcat version 5.5.  If you are running
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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="InstallingMetacat"></a><div class="header1">Installing Metacat</div>
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    <p>Tomcat will look for it's application files (war files) in a configured directory.
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