The installation process will be made more user-friendly soon, hopefully. The main developer currently uses Gentoo Linux with Tomcat 6 and Oracle JDK 1.7.
Basic requirements:
- Linux
- Mercurial
- Java 1.7 SDK
- Ant
- Servlet container (Tomcat)
Basic procedure is:
1. $ hg clone https://code.google.com/p/iovar
2. $ cd iovar
3. $ ant project.install
4. $ ant app.install
5. $ ant app
6. Install webapp into servlet container (currently /iovar context is assumed).
7. Start servlet container.
8. Open browser to http://localhost:8080/iovar/$ for the interactive shell interface.