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<sect1 id="mac-installation">
  <title>OpenACS Installation Guide for Mac OS X</title>
  <formalpara>
    <title>Prerequisites</title>
    <para>Install readline:</para>
  </formalpara>
  <orderedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para>Download readline from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline/readline-4.3.tar.gz into /usr/local/src</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Extract readline in /usr/local/src, configure, compile, and install:</para>
      <screen><userinput>su - root
cd /usr/local/src
tar xvfz readline-4.3.tar.gz
readline-4.3
./configure
make
make install</userinput></screen>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Proceed with the Unix-like system instructions.  OS X is incompatible with Oracle 8, and Oracle 9i on OSX is not yet verified for OpenACS.  So continue with <xref linkend="postgres"/>.  Additional special steps for OS X are documented inline with the standard Unix-like instructions.</para>
    </listitem>
  </orderedlist>
  
  <para>Additional resources for installing on OS X.</para>
  <itemizedlist>
    <listitem><para><ulink url="http://borkware.com/rants/openacs/">OpenACS on Mac OS X Quickstart</ulink></para>    </listitem>
    <listitem><para><ulink
    url="http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=24887">An
    older forum thread</ulink></para>
    </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>

<para><phrase role="cvstag">($Id: macinstall.xml,v 1.6 2006/07/17 05:38:37 torbenb Exp $)</phrase></para>

</sect1>
