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--- en:user_advanced:installation_287 [2025/07/14 22:34] – created kjdon
+++ en:user_advanced:installation_287 [2025/07/15 00:07] (current) – kjdon
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+====== Advanced Installation: Greenstone2 : 2.87 and prior ======
+[[en:user_advanced:installation|Advanced Installation Index Page]] - from here you can access GReenstone3 versions of this page.
-====== Advanced Installation: 2.87 ======
 For most users, the main Greenstone download (also called the "binary") with default settings is sufficient, and is very [[en:beginner:install_basic|easy to install]]. However, there are some instances where you may want or need to go through a more advanced installation process:
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 and [[en:developer:mac_source_install|Mac OS]] source installation pages.
-==== Running the installer in text-only mode ====
-  - If you're on Linux or Mac, give the binary of the installer execute permissions
-  - Then run it by passing in the -textonly flag, as shown below.
-  - Follow the instructions on the screen thereafter. If you mistype at any stage, press ctrl-C to start again.
-<code>
-> ./Greenstone-3.06rc1-linux-x64 -textonly
-</code>
-**NOTE:** Previously, the instructions for running the installer in text-only mode were incorrect. They advised running the installer wrongly using ''./Greenstone-3.06rc1-linux-x64 text-only'', which rather triggered the default behaviour of the installer software (antinstaller) for a different kind of text-only installation rather than triggering the Greenstone installer's specific -textonly mode. Unfortunately, the wrong route would not install the bundled JRE into the Greenstone installation, despite requiring the Greenstone user to run the ''java'' command in the very next step of the install.
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+===== Running the installer in text-only mode =====
+  - Give the binary of the installer execute permissions
+  - Then run it by passing in the text-only flag.
+  - Follow the instructions on the screen thereafter. If you mistype at any stage, press ctrl-C to start again.
+<code>
+> ./Greenstone-2.87-linux text-only
+----------------------------
+Extracting java installer...
+----------------------------
+Extraction Complete
+You can now run "java -jar greenstone.jar text" to run the installer from the command line
+>
+</code>
 ===== Moving a Greenstone installation =====