Installation Guide for Linux, MacOSX and other sufficiently POSIXly systems

Semi-Automatic installation

• please check all dependencies first
• download this script (as text)
• make it executable
• execute it as the user you want to use GNUmed as
  • you will need internet access for that to work, too
  • you will have to specify, at the end of the command, either the GNUmed version number you want installed (if not the name of a tarball) e.g. for v0.4.3:
    ./gm-install_client_locally.sh 0.4.3
• GNUmed will be installed into the home directory of this user (below /home/$USER/.gnumed/client-installation/) and can be harmlessly deleted any time you wish to do so
• the script will offer trying to install needed dependancies
• it will also put a versioned startup link onto the desktop

Manual installation

• Assuming you have already installed any dependencies (Linux or Mac OS), obtain the GNUmed client code package:
  • as a GNUmed-client.latest.tgz release (versioned) from the GNUmed release download area
  • as a gnumed-latest-snapshot.tgz tarball of the CVS HEAD branch (very latest code, sometimes broken)
  • directly from CVS (very latest code, sometimes broken)