Getting it to run on OS X

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PT Sefton

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Aug 6, 2007, 2:45:31 AM8/6/07

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Hi all,

I've been working with repositories for a little while - thought I'd
see what the library community was doing.

I'm more interested in this as a portal for a Fedora (or Dspace /
Eprints) repository, which would mean harvesting via OAI-PHM and
indexing full-text as well as metadata. Anybody else considering this?

Spent an hour or two getting FacBackOPAC to run on OS X. It works on a
little MARC file describing some working papers I got from a
university library, and it miraculously gives me usable facets.

Here's what I figured out:

* Needs the svn version of Django. 0.96 which I installed from
MacPorts didn't work. Lacks django.utils.encoding
* The instructions for solr mention a solr directory - they don't
mention that this seems to be in a directory called example - works
for me anyway
* You need to go to http://localhost:8000/catalog to see the
application
* Feed the batch indexer raw MARC, not MarcXML - are there other
options?

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