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[Gnumed-devel] GNUmed Windows installation improved
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Sebastian Hilbert |
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[Gnumed-devel] GNUmed Windows installation improved |
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Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:58:00 +0100 |
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They say there is always room for improvement. And then they say if you want
to get it done just do it. Despite my impression that the Windows
installation is straightforward a number of potential users have complained
about the GNUmed prerequisites.
GNUmed stands on the shoulders of giants. It uses python, wxpython, psycopg2,
PIL, twainmodule and mxTools.
While the installation of those prerequisites is well laid out in our Wiki it
still seems to be a consuming process which has led to failure in the past.
There is no such thing as dependency handling as we know from Linux on MS
Windows. Nevertheless we have come up with a solution that may please
potential users.
There is two ways to overcome this.
1.) Use the "brand new installation routine" which handles prerequisites for
you. There is now a new version available for download which has the
term "full" appended to its name and version. The new installation routine
will check your system for all prerequisite software mentioned before and
will give you the option to install python, wxpython, PIL, mxTools, psycopg2
and twainmodule if those are not detected on your system.
2.) One can always use the Portable version of GNUmed which is a 'download and
run version' all self contained. While this is recommended for portable
storage media such as USB pendrives little is known about using this on a
daily basis.
Hopefully this will make the installation of the GNUmed client on MS Windows
even easier.
--
Sebastian Hilbert
Leipzig / Germany
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