Installing RAMADDA involves the installation of these three software packages:

• Java
• Apache Tomcat
• RAMADDA

Java Installation (instructions borrowed from Adobe)

1. Go to Applications > Utilities > Java Preferences
2. Open the Java Preferences
3. If Java is not installed, you will receive the following message:

4. Click Install and accept the license agreement. The Java runtime is downloaded and installed.

Tomcat Installation (instructions borrowed from Wolf Paulus)

1. Download a tar.gz binary distribution of the Apache Tomcat core module.

2. Unarchive the tar.gz file. You can uncompress this file with the Unarchiver. This action should result in a file called apache-tomcat-x.y.z in your Downloads folder. (x.y.z stands for the particular version of Apache Tomcat you downloaded)
3. Start the Terminal.app and issue the following commands
4. sudo mkdir /usr/local
5. sudo mv ~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-x.y.z /usr/local
6. sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-tomcat-x.y.z /Library/Tomcat
7. sudo chown -R your_username /Library/Tomcat
8. sudo chmod +x /Library/Tomcat/bin/*.sh

RAMADDA Installation

1. Download the RAMADDA WAR (web application archive) file.
2. mv ~/Downloads/repository.war /Library/Tomcat/webapps
3. /Library/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh
4. In your browser, navigate to http://localhost:8080/repository If you see the following screen, you have successfully installed RAMADDA.

You are now ready to to set up the admin account in RAMADDA.

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