EventTrails Installation Instructions
Prerequisites
- Java 2 (tested with the Sun SDK 1.4.1)
- JDBC compliant database server (tested with IBM DB2 UDB V7 and PostgreSQL 7.2 and 7.3)
- Ant make tool (available at http://ant.apache.org/ )
Uncompressing the installation files:
Unix:
Assumption: archive is located at <~/download/eventtrails.0.0.tar.gz>.
Pick a location to install the software and:
- mkdir eventtrails
- cd eventtrails
- mv ~/download/eventtrails.0.0.tar.gz .
- tar -xzvf eventtrails.0.0.tar.gz
- cd eventtrails.0.0/build
Windows
Copy the eventtrails.0.0.zip file to an appropriate location.
- For later versions of Windows (such as XP), you can use the Windows Explorer to unpack the archive, by right clicking on the .zip file and selecting "Extract All"
- In earlier versions of Windows, you will need a zip utility (PKZIP, WinImp) to extract the files to the desired directory.
Customize the configuration file
After the archive has been unpacked, create a copy of the build.xml.in file located in the build directory. Name the copy build.xml. You will need to edit this file to configure it for your environment.
- Edit the build.xml file with your favorite text editor.
- Follow the instructions contained in the file to configure it for your environment.
- Save your changes
- Assuming that ant has been installed on your system and its bin directory is in your current command path, you can build the EventTrails system with the command: ant
What Next?
Please see Using EventTrails for more information.