Download MDID3 and Prerequisites for Windows Server 2003/2008

Download MDID3

• Download and install Git
• Open a command prompt.
• If you have not already installed MDID3 previously using Subversion (SVN), create an MDID directory:

 c:
 md \mdid

• Change to the MDID directory:

 c:
 cd \mdid

• Initialize Git and link it to the MDID code repository

 git init
 git remote add rooibos git://github.com/cit-jmu/rooibos.git

• Download the MDID code

 git fetch rooibos
 git merge rooibos/master

Download Prerequisites

• Download and install the database system of your choice, or use an existing database server. MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server are among the supported database systems.
• Download and install Java: http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
• Download and install dependencies

 c:
 cd \mdid\dist\windows
 download-win64.bat
 python-2.5.4.msi
 pyodbc-2.1.7.win32-py2.5.exe
 MySQL-python-1.2.2.win32-py2.5.exe
 OOo_3.2.1_Win_x86_install-wJRE_en-US.exe
 PIL-1.1.6.win32-py2.5.exe
 python-ldap-2.3.11.win32-py2.5.exe
 setuptools-0.6c11.win32-py2.5.exe
 c:\Python25\Scripts\easy_install.exe python-memcached-1.45.tar.gz
 modules.bat

• Add Python to path
• Open Control Panel>System
• Select Advanced tab
• Click Environment Variables…
• Under System Variables, edit the Path variable
• Append ;C:\Python25
• Close and re-open any command prompts
• Fix Python Permissions
• Open Windows Explorer
• Navigate to C:\
• Right-click Python25 folder and select Properties
• Select Security tab and click Advanced
• Select “Replace permission entries on all child objects” and click OK
• Copy OpenOffice script

 copy C:\mdid\rooibos\converters\DocumentConverter.py "C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program"

Configure MDID3

• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Server 2008