Installing Greenstone3 for OS X users

requirements
Java 1.4 or greater (tick) Set the environment variable JAVA_HOME sp:~/greenstone3 spdegabrielle$ sudo emacs /etc/profile

My current /etc/profile 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"
 * 1) For Tomcat

Ant 1.6.2 or later ant -version Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on September 12 2006
 * install XCode tools from the apple developer site

GDBM...

http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/gdbm.html follow the instructions at http://greenstone.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Greenstone#Darwin.2FMac_OS_X you will also need to add the path to the gdbm.installed.path property (in build.properties)

Install Procedure
svn co http://svn.greenstone.org/greenstone3/trunk greenstone3 {wait for it...} cd greenstone3/ ant prepare {read then agree to default build settings y}

hopefully: BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 6 minutes 6 seconds

see if this works... ant install