Overview

   Installing Reptile is very simple and should all Operating Systems
   (Windows, UNIX, etc.).

Requirements

   * JDK 1.2.2 or greater (hopefully GCC 3.0 will be tested soon)
   * A modern computer (PII or higher) which has an internet connection (even
     a temporary internet connection should suffice).

Installation

      1. Move reptile into a location somewhere on your disk. For user
         installations this should probably be somewhere under
         /home/USERNAME/reptile. For system installation this should probably
         be under /usr/local/reptile. On Windows machines this does not
         matter.
      2. Reptile can be started by running the
         REPTILE_HOME/reptile-startup.sh script and shutdown with
         REPTILE_HOME/reptile-shutdown.sh script. (for windows machines use
         the corresponding .bat file)
      3. You should then connect with a web browser (Konqueror, Mozilla, IE)
         to:

         http://localhost:8050/reptile/servlet/reptile

      4. After this you should allow Reptile to remain connected to the
         network for at least 10 minutes. When it first starts up Reptile
         needs to pull in external resources. After this it is able to use
         cached data when offline.

Building from source

      1. You will need a copy of Ant in order to build from source. Builds
         can be obtained from http://jakarta.apache.org/ant
      2. Change to the REPTILE_HOME directory and run:

                     %shell% java org.apache.tools.ant.Main dist
                    

     This will build reptile into REPTILE_HOME/bin/distribution. All that is
     needed to run it is to launch reptile-startup.sh
