install-overview
Introduction
This is a 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.
People not working in our projects, but using our infrastructure, may look at the shortlist.
Hardware
- a portable Mac is our standard platform (portable because we do travel, Mac
- 8 Gb RAM needed for hfst transducer compilation
- fast harddisk prefered
- 8 Gb RAM needed for hfst transducer compilation
- 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
Accounts needed
- e-mail at UiT
- accounts on the following servers:
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gtsvn og andre linux-boksar
- XServe
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gtsvn og andre linux-boksar
- Bugzilla account
- SourceForge (for work on MT)
Services to enable:
- svn
- iCal Server & Jabber on XServe
Software to install
Commercial software, local shop
- MS Office
- Divvun additions, for testing purposes:
- Parallels Desktop
- Windows 10
- MS Office for Windows
- Parallels Desktop
Commercial software, Internet download
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Versions.app - commercial GUI front end for
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Unison for reading news (see below for an open
Free or open-source software
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SEE
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XCode
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Skype
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Thunderbird - open source
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SourceTree is a free Mac client for Git, Mercurial and SVN version control systems. It is the alternative to Versions.
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HFST tools
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Xerox tools
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Visl CG3
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Forrest - we need our own tailored version at the moment,
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Saxon HE
- Download the Java one, unzip it, place the saxon9he.jar file (.jar file, anyway) in ~/lib, give it the name saxon9.jar.
- Download the Java one, unzip it, place the saxon9he.jar file (.jar file, anyway) in ~/lib, give it the name saxon9.jar.
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QuickSilver
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Cisco VPN client
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LibreOffice
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Mikogo - cross-plattform, multicast screen sharing
Proofing tools to install
- our latest MS and LO/hunspell tools / lexicons (see our
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hunspell command line tool (use MacPort,
- Voikko - The base for using hfst as spellers
Configurations
- Unix environment:
- SEE-modes - see $GTHOME/tools/see4/
- VPN setup - get the config file from your network admin
Other setups
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check out our svn repository
- set up svn mail, by adding the users' email address to the
- Zulip
- Mail
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separate 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
- for security reasons it is better to have a separate admin account