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Installing Entrance on OS X Entrance runs out of the box on recently purchased OS X systems. We recommend you install JRE 1.6 on Leopard, if your system supports the non-preview version of JRE 1.6. Apple provides it here. To install Entrance: simply drag the Entrance application icon to your Applications folder. The first time you run Entrance, it will create the system folder it needs. Copy the serial number from the email you received when you purchased Entrance, and paste it into the "Set serial number..." dialog and you are done. A MySQL driver is bundled, so Entrance is ready to connect to a MySQL server. Installing a MySQL server on the non-server version of OS X is probably the easiest of all platform installs, because MySQL AB provides two PKG files that do most of the work for you. You download a MySQL server for your Mac architecture (PPC or i86) from the MySQL web site, http://mysql.com/. Then, you simply install the server PKG and the startup item PKG. Restart your system, and the server will be running. (Older systems may require you to create a "mysql" account, but newer OS X systems do not) . Setting up the MySQL Server on OS X Server is a little trickier. Although the server is pre-installed, this time there are no PKG files, and you must do a few things to configure the server yourself. There are instructions on the MySQL web site. Installing on Windows Entrance requires Java JRE 1.5 or later to run on Windows, and we recommend JRE 1.6. The Entrance EXE checks to see if you have it, and if not, directs you to http://java.com/ to dowload it.. Once you have Java installed, download, unzip and run the Entrance EXE, and it will create the system folder it needs. Copy the serial number from the email you received when you purchased Entrance, and paste it into the "Set serial number..." dialog A MySQL driver is bundled, so Entrance is ready to be connected to a MySQL server. On Linux and Unix Systems Install Java JRE 1.5 or later if you don'tt already have it, then unzip the Entrance download file. On many systems you can double click the entrance jar icon to start the program. You can also start Entrance using the command: "java -jar (path to the program directory)/entrance.jar". Run the program, then open the Tools menu and select the serial number in the "Enter serial number..." dialog. A MySQL driver is bundled, so Entrance is ready to be connected to a MySQL server. Please note: This web page and other Entrance documentation web pages are copyrighted material and have not been released under the terms of the GPL. Copyright (c) 2007, 2008 dbEntrance Software, All Rights Reserved Java and the Java Coffee Cup Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Solaris is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. MySQL is a registered trademark of MySQL AB in the United States, the European Union and other countries. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. |