Installing an older version of BaseX on a Mac laptop
Hi, I'm new to BaseX and currently preparing a training session teaching XQuery and using BaseX as the programming environment. I'm setting up step-by-step instructions for the attendees and have run into trouble with the Mac installation using Homebrew and BaseX. The Homebrew formula that was available yesterday appears to be gone. Please advise as to how to simply install BaseX on a Mac, as the session is for non-programmers and I want to keep the instructions simple. Thanks, Chris Christine Schwartz Metadata Librarian and XML Database Administrator Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Hello Christine, I can't really imagine why the homebrew formula should be gone (according to http://braumeister.org/formula/basex there are several versions available), but I am not a mac user myself, so I can't check. However, the simplest way imho for all operating systems to start BaseX is to download the zip distribution at http://basex.org/products/download/all-downloads/ and to simply start bin/basexgui (or in case of windows bin/basexgui.bat) - This should be all it takes to start BaseX! No installation or setup neccessary, you should be good to go. Cheers Dirk On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Schwartz, Christine < christine.schwartz@ptsem.edu> wrote:
Hi,
I’m new to BaseX and currently preparing a training session teaching XQuery and using BaseX as the programming environment.
I’m setting up step-by-step instructions for the attendees and have run into trouble with the Mac installation using Homebrew and BaseX. The Homebrew formula that was available yesterday appears to be gone.
Please advise as to how to simply install BaseX on a Mac, as the session is for non-programmers and I want to keep the instructions simple.
Thanks,
Chris
Christine Schwartz
Metadata Librarian and XML Database Administrator
Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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Hi Chris, Welcome to the list! I've just got a message from Johan Mörén that he has pushes a new homebrew pull request for BaseX 8.2 [1]. Beside that, I agree with Dirk that our ZIP version might be the best candidate for BaseX training sessions, because it works with any environment that provides support for Java 7. All the best, Christian [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/39960 On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Schwartz, Christine <christine.schwartz@ptsem.edu> wrote:
Hi,
I’m new to BaseX and currently preparing a training session teaching XQuery and using BaseX as the programming environment.
I’m setting up step-by-step instructions for the attendees and have run into trouble with the Mac installation using Homebrew and BaseX. The Homebrew formula that was available yesterday appears to be gone.
Please advise as to how to simply install BaseX on a Mac, as the session is for non-programmers and I want to keep the instructions simple.
Thanks,
Chris
Christine Schwartz
Metadata Librarian and XML Database Administrator
Princeton Theological Seminary Library
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Schwartz, Christine <christine.schwartz@ptsem.edu> wrote:
Please advise as to how to simply install BaseX on a Mac, as the session is for non-programmers and I want to keep the instructions simple.
If you just want your users to use the (BaseX)GUI on the Mac then you could give BaseX.app [1] a try. [1] http://files.basex.org/releases/BaseX.app.tar.bz2
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