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Reference documentation: http://dspace.org/technology/system-docs/install.html

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• create a user postgres - use this for your postgres install
• create a user dspace - use this for both dspace and tomcat
• Update java With system update (J2RE version 1.5)
• Install xcode tools. You need it for Ant. Probably other stuff too.
• Install tomcat5.5 http://www.bartbusschots.ie/blog/?p=201 is a good guide - just remember to use the user dspace instead of tomcat. I have only done steps one to three.

• Install postgresql-8.1 http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/postgresql/ is a good guide that includes postgres prebuilt as a osx package for easy installation. (works fine for 10.4)

  Code Block
  sudo mkdir /dspace; sudo chown dspace /dspace

• Create the PostgreSQL 'dspace' user and the 'dspace' database. The key here is to issue each command using sudo as the Unix 'postgres' user:

  Code Block
  sudo -u postgres createuser -U postgres -d -A -P dspace sudo -u dspace createdb -U dspace -E UNICODE dspace

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modify /etc/profile as follows;

# System-wide .profile for sh(1)

PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin"
export PATH

if [ "${BASH-no}" != "no" ]; then
        [ -r /etc/bashrc ] && . /etc/bashrc
fi

#For Tomcat
export JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home
export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat

export JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx512M -Xms64M -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"

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