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<div class="header1">Table of Contents</div>
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    <div class="toc1"><a href="#Intro">Introduction</a></div>
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    <div class="toc1"><a href="#GetSource">Get Metacat Source</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#SourceDistribution">Source Distribution</a></div> 
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#SVN">SVN Checkout</a></div>
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    <div class="toc1"><a href="#BuildFromSource">Build From Source</a></div>
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      <div class="toc2"><a href="#PrepareBuild">Prepare Build</a></div>
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<a name="Intro"></a><div class="header1">Introduction</div>
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  <p>Metacat source can be downloaded either by getting and extracting the 
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  source distribution, or by checking out the code from the repository.</p>
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  <p>Reasons for choosing one versus the other might be:</p>
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  <li>Source Distribution - this is a faster download since the code is compressed.  You
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  might choose this if you want a stable versioned release, but you prefer to have
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  all of your applications built on the server where it will run.  (Although it shouldn't
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  matter where a java application is built.)</li>
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  <li>SVN Checkout - there are several reasons for choosing a checked out version of 
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  the code.  One is that you may want to build from the head of the code to pick up
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  new changes that are not yet in a versioned build.  Conversely, you may want to build
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  off of an older tag, to avoid an issue that was introduced in a build.  Lastly, you 
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  may want to develop and submit code to the Metacat repository</li>
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  <p>You will also need Apache Ant to do the build.  If you have not already 
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  installed Ant and you are running Ubuntu/Debian, you can get it by typing:</p>
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    <div class="code">sudo apt-get install ant</div>
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  <p>Otherwise, you can get ant from
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  <a href="http://ant.apache.org/">The Apache Ant homepage</a></p>
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  <p>If you are checking out Metacat code from the SVN repository, you will need both 
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  Subversion (SVN) and CVS clients installed and configured on your system.  Both are needed
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  because, while Metacat has been migrated to SVN, some of its supporting libraries (eml, 
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  utilities and seek) have not yet been migrated.  Eventually, SVN will be the only versioning 
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  client you will need.  You will need to make sure you have the appropriate accounts on these 
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  systems.  You won't have to worry about SVN or CVS if you are installing from a Metacat
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  source distribution.  These have all the required dependencies built in.</p>
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  <p>If you have not already installed Subversion and you are running Ubuntu/Debian, you can 
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  get it by typing:</p>
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    <div class="code">sudo apt-get install subversion</div>
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  <p>Otherwise, you can get if from <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org">The Subversion homepage</a></p>
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<a name="GetSource"></a><div class="header1">Get Metacat Source</div>
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  <a name="SourceDistribution"></a><div class="header2">Source Distribution</div>  
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    <p>To get the Metacat source distribution, 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, for Linux based systems, select the link that looks like:</p>
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	  <div class="code">metacat-src-X.X.X.tar.gz</div>
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	  <div class="code">metacat-src-X.X.X.zip</div>
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    <p>where X.X.X is the latest version of Metacat.  Choose to save the file locally in the directory 
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    <p>Extract the Metacat package files on Linux systems by typing:
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    <p>or, on Windows, use your system unzip utility to extract the zip file.</p>
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  <a name="SVN"></a><div class="header2">SVN Checkout</div> 
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    <p>To check out the code from SVN, go to the directory where you would like the code 
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      <div class="code">svn co https://code.ecoinformatics.org/code/metacat/tags/METACAT_&lt;rev&gt; metacat</div>
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    <p>Where &lt;rev&gt; is the version of the code you want to check out (like 1_9). </p>
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      <div class="code">svn co https://code.ecoinformatics.org/code/metacat/trunk metacat</div>
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  <a name="BuildFromSource"></a><div class="header1">Build From Source</div>
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     <p>You should now have the Metacat source in a directory named "metacat" in your
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  <a name="PrepareBuild"></a><div class="header2">Prepare Build</div>   
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    <p>Edit the file at:</p>
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      <div class="code">&lt;metacat_src_dir&gt;/build.properties</div> 
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    <p>Make sure that the "build.tomcat.dir" property is set to your tomcat installation
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      <div class="code">build.tomcat.dir=/usr/local/tomcat</div>
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  <a name="DoAntBuild"></a><div class="header2">Do Ant Build</div>   
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    <p>In the &lt;metacat_src_dir&gt;, run: </p>
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