install-overview

This is a short check-point list for setting up new users in our teams. Please add missing points as needed. See also the checklist for what new users should know. There is some overlap, but this doc is for the sys admin, the other one is for the new user.

• a portable Mac is our standard platform (portable because we do travel, Mac for a number of very good reasons, among them SEE)
• preferably an external monitor
• headphone w. mic
• a backpack or similar for the computer
• possibly an external HD for TimeMachine/backup purposes (that extra security is definitely worth the money!)

• e-mail at UiT
• accounts on the following servers:
  • victorio
  • XServe
• Bugzilla account
• SourceForge (for work on MT)

• svn
• iCal Server (Jabber) on G5

Commercial software, local shop

• MS Office
• Divvun additions, for testing purposes:
  • Parallells Desktop
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • MS Office for Windows

Commercial software, Internet download

• SEE
• Unison for reading news (see below for an open source alternative)
• Versions.app - commercial GUI front end for Subversion. It makes some operations much easier. If you use this app, please ensure that you also install $GTHOME/gt/src/filemerge-tools/FileMerge_SaveMergedToSecondFile.sh - just run make in that directory. Then select that script as your diff tool in Versions.app's preferences.

Free or open-source software

• XCode (on the CD that came with the computer, or available from Apple - registration (free) required)
• XMLEditor (personal edition)
• Skype
• Thunderbird - open source alternative to Unison
• svnX
• HFST tools
  • Download from the HFST download at SourceForge
• Xerox tools
• Visl CG3
• Forrest - we need our own tailored version at the moment, but work is going on to make us able to use the standard distribution
• Saxon B
• QuickSilver
• Cisco VPN client
• OpenOffice.org
• Mikogo - cross-plattform, multicast screen sharing - dmg file for download

Proofing tools to install

• our latest MS and OOo/hunspell tools / lexicons (see our home page)
• Aspell / Cocoaspell
  • speller lexicons for the required languages
• hunspell command line tool (use MacPort, see instructions on the OpenXSpell home page)
• OpenXSPell - does also install Enchant, a multi-engine speller middle-man.
• Soikko (Finnish speller, good) - Mac version here
• Voikko (another Finnish speller, interesting comparison)

• Unix environment:
  • .bashrc
  • ( .inputrc - this is only required when setting up old computers running Tiger/MacOS X 10.4.x or older, in Leopard/10.5.x and newer, UTF-8 input/output is working properly in Terminal)
  • .emacs
• SEE-modes - see gtsvn/gt/src/see-tools/
• XMLEditor - forrestdoc config available here
• VPN setup - get the config file from your network admin

• check out our svn repository, then run $GTHOME/gt/script/gtsetup.sh
• set up svn mail, by adding the users' email address to the .forward file under the users' home directory on victorio.
• iChat
• Mail
• admin and user accounts on the Mac
  • for security reasons it is better to have a separate admin account
  • which means that the regular user account should be non-admin
  • it is ok that the user knows the admin account name and password, to be able to install software, updates, tweak system settings etc. (the security benefit is that the normal processes, downloads, etc are done in a restricted user space, not in an administrative account; in the case of malware downloads, it will only affect that user, not the whole machine)