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BRUTUS software for cataloging and organizing the things we collect |
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1. Installation Guide Brutus is written in Java, so you will need to have Java installed on your computer in order to use it. It is freely available from Sun Microsystems <http://java.sun.com>. Brutus needs Java 1.4, and it will probably also run on Java 1.5 (same as Java 5.0) but it has not been tested on it. Brutus installation is not complicated, but after all the files are in place there are a few things that need to be done before you can run Brutus for the fist time, as you will see. Of course the first thing to do is choose a directory or folder to put it in. This directory/folder must be included in your CLASSPATH environment variable. If you create a new directory/folder, you must add it to your CLASSPATH. Then unzip the brutus.zip file into this directory/folder, and the major portion of the installation is now done. However, like we said before, you still need to do some things before you can run Brutus. The first thing needed is to create the database. Brutus uses an embedded HSQLDB database engine (the same database engine used in OpenOffice.org) to store all its data. It might be useful to note that the objects you enter into Brutus that are computer files are not stored on the database. The database only has pointers to where the files are located on your computer. To create the database, you need to execute the Java program DBMInit. You can do this by running the Init.cmd command file in Brutus's install directory or, if this command file will not execute on your platform, from a command line by entering this command from the directory where you installed Brutus: java -classpath brutus.jar com.casaerwin.brutus.DBMInit DBMInit will create the BrutusDB database. After the database has been created, it will load the default (English) language file into the database. Once Brutus is running, the language can be easily changed by clicking to the Options menu, then Language and then on the language of your choice. Of course, it must be one of the four supported languages: German, English, Spanish or Italian.
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