# Installation Sources and Guides for GNUmed

This download matrix is mostly obsoleted by the simple guide.

The software is divided into client and backend softwares, as below. Notice of release candidates are posted only on the developer email list. New releases proper (i.e. official releases, suitable for production use) are earliest available as Any Linux/Unix tarballs, which are intended for user-local (not system-wide) usage. Debian deb packages for gnumed-client often enter the 'unstable' distro within about a week, and propagate into 'testing' 10 days later. Packages for other distros vary. Note also that GNUmed-client versions ≥ 0.3x depend on python-wxgtk2.8

Any help in the updating of BinaryPackages would be most appreciated!

## GNUmed Client (Python Reference Client)

User releases | Status | Comments
--- | --- | ---
Windows | recent | Installation instructions in Deutsch English
Linux
Debian/Linux | recent | Installation instructions
openSUSE/Linux | recent | Installation instructions
Mandriva/Linux | +- recent | Installation instructions
Fedora Linux | +- recent | Installation instructions
PCLinuxOS | +- recent | Installation instructions
Ubuntu Linux | +- recent | Installation instructions
Any Linux/Unix | newest | Manual installation instructions
Mac OS X | recent (0.8.x) | Installation instructions

Special releases | Status | Comments
--- | --- | ---
Live CD/USB | recent | Intel-compatible CD/USB image
| Live CD/USB information Download
GNUmed mobile ed. | recent | run GNUmed directly from mobile drive (USB, eSATA)
| Instructions Client, Server
Virtual machine | on request | GNUmed virtual machine for VMware's VMplayer, Instructions

## GNUmed Backend (server and database)

As an alternative to installing the server software (and as described elsewhere), people evaluating the client can connect to the slow public demo database.

- conceptual introduction to the GNUmed backend
- GNUmed database installation and upgrade

Developers | Status | Comments | Download (link)
--- | --- | --- | ---
Linux/Unix | newest | download latest snapshot. Further instructions for manual installation are here
Debian/Linux | recent | Installation instructions |
openSUSE/Linux | recent | Installation instructions | 1-click installation
Linux from CVS | newest | for those desiring and comfortable with CVS, and to access the newest code
Mac from CVS | newest | for those desiring and comfortable with CVS, and to access the newest code
Windows from CVS | newest | for those desiring and comfortable with CVS... also requires eclipse

### Other Clients

- a proof-of-concept web client has been intermittently tinkered-with

Notes:

- The "client" software is run from a desktop or laptop machine
- Among the available client installation methods, the easiest include:
  - Leaving your computer untouched, by obtaining, burning onto CD, and booting from a GNUmed Live CD ISO image_
  - Install from double-clickable "Binary" installers.
    - Note Ubuntu "Hardy" (May 2008) shipped with gnumed-client version 0.2.8.2, which needs replacing.
    - See also Operating systems issues overview and the Release status pages.
- Whichever method is chosen, the client software will depend on other software, the installation of which is in some cases automatic, but in others purely manual.
- Some users may choose to install optional helper applications, such as viewers for the DICOM medical images produced in radiology and cardiology departments.
- At startup, the client will be aimed to connect, via internet, to our public database (userid any-doc with password any-doc ), which can however introduce lags of 30 to 60 seconds for some EMR interactions.
- At startup, the client can alternatively connect to a local server (if installed), but the installation of the server software -- which creates and manages a new database -- is time-consuming, involved, and best left to persons familiar and comfortable with command line interfaces.