
                          Readme for Sedna 0.5

        Copyright (C) 2005 ISP RAS and others. All rights reserved.


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                              Contents

   Note
   System Requirements
   Installing Sedna from Source Code 
   Installing Sedna from Precompiled Binaries
   Installing Sedna from RPM or DEB Package
   Sedna Quick Start
   Support


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                               Note

   Please, read the LICENSE, before using the system. If you do not agree
   to all the terms of the LICENSE, you must not install or use Sedna.


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                       System Requirements

   Sedna runs on the following platforms:
   - Windows 2000/XP
   - Linux x86 kernel version 2.4 or higher

   Additional requirements:
   - Java API driver requires Java Run-time Environment (JRE) version 1.4.
   - Scheme API driver requires PLT version 200 or higher, or Chicken.


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            Installing Sedna from Source Code 

   See file INSTALL supplied with the source code package.


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            Installing Sedna from Precompiled Binaries

Windows platform:

   Sedna is distributed as a single .tar.gz archive. 

   The installation process consists of the following steps:

   1) Unzip archive to any directory (for example "c:\sedna").
   2) Add the bin subdirectory of sedna installation to the environment 
      variable PATH.
      Note: we recommend you to use an absolute path (in the previous 
      example add "c:\sedna\bin" to the PATH variable).

Linux platform:

   Sedna is distributed as a single self-extracting script.
   The installation process consists of running self-extracting script
   and following its instruction.


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              Installing Sedna from RPM or DEB Package

   This type of installation is available only for Linux. See manual provided
   with your package system to find about installing new packages.


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                       Sedna Quick Start

   Sedna is distributed with examples and instructions on how to run them. 
   See Sedna Quick Start to start working with Sedna. Sedna Programmer's 
   Guide contains instructions on how to run example applications using 
   Sedna API. Sedna Quick Start and Sedna Programmer's Guide are available 
   at "doc" subdirectory of the directory where Sedna is installed (or in
   "/usr/share/doc/sedna-x.x.x" if you have installed Sedna from RPM or 
   DEB package).


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                           Support

   Please, feel free to contact us with questions, suggestions, bug reports
   and comments:

modis@ispras.ru

   For up-to-date information and new versions of Sedna visit the Sedna 
   homepage:

http://www.modis.ispras.ru/Development/sedna.htm

   You can also join the Sedna mail lists at

http://www.modis.ispras.ru/maillist.htm
