Installing Greenstone on a Windows system
There are various ways of getting Greenstone:In addition to all the above software, these CD-ROMs contain the tutorial exercises and a set of sample files to be used for these exercises. CD-ROMs with Greenstone version 2.62 or earlier also include the Greenstone Language Pack, which gives reader's interfaces in many languages (currently about 40). This has its own installer which you have to invoke separately, after you have installed Greenstone. CD-ROMs with version 2.70 or later now come with reader's interfaces in all available languages. Textual images have been removed from the interface; they are now done using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). The Greenstone Language Pack is no longer needed. Instead, these CD-ROMs come with the Classic Interface Pack, which contains the old text images for use with a backwards compatibility macro file.
All these CD-ROMs contain the full Greenstone software, which allows you to view collections and build new ones. They are not the same as CD-ROMs that contain a pre-packaged Greenstone collection, which only allow you to view that collection.
Installing ImageMagick on a Windows system
Once Greenstone has been installed, you should ensure that ImageMagick is installed on your computer if you wish to build any image collections. If you are installing from a Greenstone CD-ROM, you will be asked whether you want to install ImageMagick: say Yes. If you are not, you will need to download ImageMagick (from http://www.imagemagick.org). To install this program you must have Windows "Administrator" privileges. (If you do not have Windows Administrator privileges, the ImageMagick installer will give a cryptic error complaining that it failed to set a particular Windows registry value. If this happens you can continue your work with Greenstone, but you will not be able to build collections of images.) The remaining steps are straightforward, and, as before, we recommend the default settings. Here is what you need to do.Installing Ghostscript on a Windows system
If you wish to do advanced conversion of PDF and Postscript documents (as described in exercise Enhanced PDF handling), you will need to install Ghostscript. If you are installing from a Greenstone CD-ROM you will automatically be prompted for this; the procedure is analogous to that described above for ImageMagick. If not, you will need to download Ghostscript from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ (follow the link to the current stable release).If you are not sure whether you will need Ghostscript or not, you might as well install it anyway—it will do no harm.