GBrowse Gentoo HOWTO

Prerequisites

Change ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in /etc/make.conf file

 #x86 
 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"

Synchroniz packages

 emerge --sync

Install Apache

Apache2 will now work on most systems with no problems, if it doesn't for you, section Common Problems might be helpful.

Start by emerging apache2: add "apache2" to your USE flags in make.conf and

 emerge apache

Install Mysql

 emerge dev-db/mysql -pv

Install Bioperl and Bioperl-run

 emerge bioperl Bioperl-run

Installing GBrowse with Source File

Download GBrowse Source from

 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gmod

You should be uncompressed and unpacked the source files.

Install GBrowse

Change to the directory which the source files have been uncompressed and unpacked. We will install the Gbrowser to the default directory "/var/www/localhost/htdocs/" and "/var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/". Following these command:

 perl Makefile.PL APACHE=/var/www/localhost/ CONF=/etc/apache2/ HTDOCS=/var/www/localhost/htdocs/ CGIBIN=/var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/ DO_XS=1
 make 
 make install

Starting Gbrowser

Start mysql and apache

 /etc/init.d/mysql start
 /etc/init.d/apache2 start

Now browse the documentation and example database at http://localhost/gbrowse.