Jim's installation notes

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Installation on PPC mac

• First do this on my G4 laptop. Then consider whether to install on the XServe.

Installation section of Getting Started describes how to get Chado from CVS. Note, when updating, be sure to be at the directory level just above schema. Getting Started refers to the INSTALL document

Prerequisites

PostgreSQL

• I installed PostgreSQL using the Installer Package from Marc Liyanage
  • There are a couple of tools to make working with PostgreSQL easier
    • pgAdmin is a GUI desktop app. I have this but haven't figured out how to do anything useful with it.
    • phppgadmin web based admin tool analogous to phpmyadmin for mysql

Apache

Comes installed on OS X

BioPerl

BioPerl is currently not installed on my laptop, as I ran into the dreaded gd installation problems. Let's try again. Installing BioPerl on Unix applies to Mac OSX once the prereqs are done (I think). Some incomplete notes here from installing on the server. As I recall, this failed the last time I tried on my laptop. However, I think Matías Giovannini updated his Installation guide for gd since the last time I tried it.