Installing Blogmento

Getting Blogmento

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Windows

The latest beta version of Blogmento is available for download here (installer).

Other Platforms

If you don't have windows, then you will want to download and unpack this archive into a directory like /usr/local/blogmento

Source Code

Installing Blogmento

If you downloaded the executable.... the binary distribution of Blogmento consists of the following directory layout:

  blogmento
   +--- bin  // contains launcher scripts
   |
   +--- lib  // contains Blogmento jar plus necessary dependencies
   |
   +--- styles // contains blog styles (appearances)
   |      +--- clean    // a clean and simple blog style
   |
   +--- database // contains your blog items, and backups

Setup

Unless you ran the windows installer, before you can run blogmento there is some additional set up you will need to do:

• Add the bin directory to your path.
• Set the BLOGMENTO_HOME environment variable to the directory where you installed Blogmento.

Windows (You don't need this if you used installer)

Assume Blogmento is installed in c:\blogmento\. The following sets up the environment:

set BLOGMENTO_HOME=c:\blogmento
set PATH=%PATH%;%BLOGMENTO_HOME%\bin

Unix (bash)

Assume Blogmento is installed in /usr/local/blogmento. The following sets up the environment:

export BLOGMENTO_HOME=/usr/local/blogmento
export PATH=${PATH}:${BLOGMENTO_HOME}/bin

Unix (csh)

setenv BLOGMENTO_HOME /usr/local/blogmento
set path=( $path $BLOGMENTO_HOME/bin )

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