Revision as of 16:35, 17 April 2007

GBrowse does not have a .deb package, but many of its prerequisites are distributed in this way. This document describes how to install GBrowse on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions that use the Debian packaging system.

Prerequisites

Install Apache and Apache-modperl

 sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-perl2
 sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-perl2-dev
 sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-perl2-doc
 sudo apt-get install apache2-doc

Make the missing cgi-bin directory

 sudo mkdir /usr/lib/cgi-bin

Install libgd

 sudo apt-get install libgd2-dev

Install MySQL database (optional, but recommended)

 sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Installing GBrowse with the Net Installer

Get the netinstaller script from Generic-Genome-Browser/bin/gbrowse_netinstall.pl and save it to disk as "gbrowse_netinstall.pl". Then run:

sudo perl gbrowse_netinstall.pl

Be sure to double-check the paths that GBrowse guesses for the Apache configuration, htdocs, and cgibin directories, as these may have changed.

The script will download and install all the Perl modules on which GBrowse depends. During the installation process, some of these modules will ask you questions. You can almost always accept the defaults. If you change your mind later, you can simply run the script again.

When the installer is finished, you can browse the documentation and example database at http://localhost/gbrowse.