I am working on a research project in which I am annotating, or attempting to annotate, a genome of a bacterium. The problem is that the program I want to install assumes the user has an understanding of computer programming. The main issue I'm encountering involves installing the Java Web Developers Package ver. 1.5. I am completely lost and need help. The guide I've been following says:

The Java Web Services Development Package provides all the j2ee environment
needed by Agmial.
Install JWSDP 1.5 by executing the downloaded file. Follow the Installation Wizard.\\

When I downloaded ver. 1.5 it came as a .sh file, so I cut and pasted the contents into the Terminal app. I can't tell if anything happened. There certainly was no installation wizard that appeared. Any ideas?

In addition I'm on campus all summer and there's $20 in it for anyone that can do this for me. Thanks!

7/1/2010 7:32:09 PM

.sh is a shell script.
You probably need to type "cd " (note the space) then drag the FOLDER the .sh file is in to the terminal window, then press enter.

Then type "sh " (note the space again) then drag the FILE that ends with .sh to the terminal windows, then press enter. If it needs admin privileges then you have to type "sudo sh " and drag the file, then enter your admin password.

http://homepage.mac.com/iamnot/eden-pub/how2BuildServer/install_jwsdp.html

There are moderately detailed instructions there it seems like

[Edited on July 1, 2010 at 8:16 PM. Reason : ]

7/1/2010 8:12:23 PM

if you still need help even after ^that, shoot me a PM

7/1/2010 8:27:22 PM

I didn't realize that dragging stuff into the Terminal window worked

I thought you just opened it up, and if say you had a folder on the Desktop called "rar" with "install.sh" inside (I realize command-line RAR doesn't have this but still), you would type

cd ~/Desktop/rar/

sudo ./install.sh

chmod 777 install.sh
sudo ./install.sh

7/2/2010 8:53:21 PM