[SPTUsers] Mac OS X: Upgrading from 1.1.3 to 1.2.0

[Darin Burleigh]

On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 04:54 PM, Lois Bellamy wrote:

> I successfully installed SPT 1.1.3 on Mac OS X server 10.2.8. Now I 
> want to upgrade to 1.2.0. When I run the installation script and 
> answer yes to upgrade, I am told that I do not have md5sum on my 
> computer and that I should install it. The Mac has md5 and cksum. 
> Anyway to use these instead? If not, where should I acquire md5sum? 
> I've looked, but all seems to be linux related. Advice from an expert 
> would be helpful!
>

If you have adminstrative privileges and are comfortable with 
command-line operations, you
can compile it from sources. These are the steps I used:

 From the web:

  download 'coreutils'  from gnu.org

 From the command line:

gunzip -c coreutils-5.0.tar.gz |  tar xvf -
cd coreutils-5.0
  ./configure
  cd  src
  make md5sum
  mv  md5sum /usr/local/bin
  cd ../man
  cp md5sum.1 /usr/local/man/man.1

Darin Burleigh
Systems Programmer, Journal of Chemical Education
burleigh at chem.wisc.edu
(608) 262-8647