The CastanetTM Tuner

Installing on Solaris

The downloaded Castanet tuner is a compressed tar file that installs like most similary packaged applications. Installation takes just a couple of minutes.

Contents

Prerequisites
What's Installed Where
Installation Step by Step
Configuration Step by Step

If you print this page, installation will take up less screen space, and you'll have a convenient place to check off each prerequisite and installation step as you complete it.

Prerequisites

Hardware Requirements

Before you install the Tuner, be sure your computer has the following:

Proxy Information

If your computer is behind a firewall you'll need to provide the Tuner with proxy information. For the quickest and smoothest Tuner installation, gather the following before you begin:

Clean Up First

Before you begin installation:

What's Installed Where

Installing the Tuner creates two directories that contain a number of subordinate files and directories.

  1. The program directory holds the Tuner program and related files. The program directory is called castanet; it contains directories called tuner and jdk. The tuner directory contains the Tuner files; the jdk directory contains the Java Developer's Kit. If you install other Marimba programs, they will create other directories subordinate to castanet. Tuner installation will not disturb non-tuner directories.
  2. The channel directory holds the channels you subscribe to with the Tuner. The channel directory is $HOME/.marimba/files. Installing a new Tuner version does not disturb channels downloaded with older Tuner versions.

Installation Step-by-Step

Configuration Step by Step

When you run the Tuner for the first time, it prompts you for configuration information by presenting a series of dialogs for you to fill in. If you've configured an older version of the Tuner, that information is presented in the dialogs to save you a little typing. You can change configuration settings later by clicking the Tuner's Configure tab.

When you start an unconfigured Tuner, an Castanet Tuner dialog appears.

User Information

Fill in as much information as you wish to make available to channel publishers. If a channel publisher has requested it, the Tuner will send your user information to the publisher when the Tuner updates the channel.

Update Mailcap

Web browsers see channels as MIME (multimedia Internet mail exchange) types analogous to movie or audio types. For a Browser to start the Tuner when you click on a Web page link to a channel, an entry must be made in your $HOME/.mailcap file associating the channel MIME type with the Tuner.

Proxy Configuration

Tuner Update

The Tuner is a channel and can therefore update itself. This dialog gives you the opportunity to update the Tuner you downloaded (perhaps some time ago). You can do this now or not, and you can do it whenever you like later.

Configuration is complete; the Tuner user interface appears.

Remember, to change the configuration data you have entered above, click the Tuner's Configure tab.

 


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