Re: [Exist-open] the way to install eXist

[Michael B. <mbn...@mb...>]

Subject: [Exist-open] the way to install eXist
Sébastien Hallay wrote:



> I have a lot of problems to install eXist (java exception). Is it possible
to
> have a document explaining the way to install eXist?

[snip]

As a newcomer here myself, I perhaps ought to let more experienced people
answer, but with that health warning, my 2 cents worth:

The reason there aren't any install instructions is that, ideally, eXist
shouldn't need installing in any real sense. Put the tarball somewhere
suitable (I used /usr/local/ on a Linux platform) and unpack it. If you have
a working java installation with the standard environment variables all in
place JAVA_HOME, CLASSPATH etc) you should then be able to cd into the exist
directory and from there run the programs by invoking then with bin/exist.sh
or bin/exist.bat, etc. depending on your platform.  Provided you always run
them with the exist directory as your current directory, that should be all
that's needed.

However, as I reported earlier on this list, I found that for me this only
worked as long as I was using the java command line interface. I kept
getting exceptions as soon as I tried XML-RPC from Perl or the http
interface. So, in Wolfgang's advice, I rebuilt. Very simple. Again assuming
the exist directory is the default,
bin/build.sh clean; bin/build
(or whatever the Windows equivalent would be). Ant then does its stuff after
which, for me, everything worked.

If this doesn't get you any further, perhaps you could tell us precisely
what those java exceptions you're seeing are?

[Hope this intervention hasn't offended any old hands: I'm just trying to do
something in return for the great help I've had myself so far on this list.]

Michael
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