GTM installation

METHOD 1
Manual installation is obsolete; new installations of both GT.M and VistA are more easily done with Astronaut.


 * Astronaut VistA(tm) Auto Installer - yum/apt-get based installers for un-official and hugely improved WorldVistA(tm) and OpenVistA(tm).

METHOD 2
The manual method may be needed for updating GT.M in a previously installed system.

These instructions were done on an Ubuntu Jaunty desktop linux machine, with VistA previously installed using Astronaut.

gtm_V53004A_linux_i686_pro.tar.gz 	 linux, mac, windows, bsd, solaris, others  	6.2 MiB  	Wed Aug 12 2009 15:48  	0 mkdir /opt/lsb-gtm/tmp/ cd /opt/lsb-gtm/tmp/ wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/files/GT.M-x86-Linux/V5.3-004A/gtm_V53004A_linux_i686_pro.tar.gz/download tar zxfv gtm_V53004A_linux_i686_pro.tar.gz [verbose output omitted]
 * Start by logging into your Astronaut installation and doing a backup
 * Go to the Sourceforge site for GTM.
 * Find the latest release. As of 12 August 2009 it looks like:
 * Note: Release Notes will be found at the Fidelity Information Services website
 * Make a tmp directory in /opt/lsb-gtm/ and download the file to it either using your browser, or by taking your terminal there and using wget. Then unzip it:

./configure GT.M Configuration Script Copyright 2009 Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. Use of this software is restricted by the provisions of your license agreement.
 * Run the configure routine, directing it to create a directory

What account should own the files? (bin) <== Enter Should execution of GT.M be restricted to a group? (y or n) <== Enter In what directory should GT.M be installed? /opt/lsb-gtm/gtm_V53004A_i686 <== Enter this directory path

Directory /opt/lsb-gtm/gtm_V53004A_i686 does not exist. Do you wish to create it as part of this installation? (y or n) y <== Enter the y

Installing GT.M....

Should unicode support be installed? (y or n) y <== Enter

All of the GT.M MUMPS routines are distributed with uppercase names. You can create lowercase copies of these routines if you wish, but to avoid problems with compatibility in the future, consider keeping only the uppercase versions of the files.

Do you want uppercase and lowercase versions of the MUMPS routines? (y or n)n <== Enter

Compiling all of the MUMPS routines. This may take a moment.

GTM> %GDE-I-GDUSEDEFS, Using defaults for Global Directory /opt/gtm_V53004A/gtmhelp.gld

GDE> GDE> GDE> %GDE-I-VERIFY, Verification OK

%GDE-I-GDCREATE, Creating Global Directory file /opt/gtm_V53004A/gtmhelp.gld

GTM> %GDE-I-GDUSEDEFS, Using defaults for Global Directory /opt/gtm_V53004A/gdehelp.gld

GDE> GDE> GDE> %GDE-I-VERIFY, Verification OK

%GDE-I-GDCREATE, Creating Global Directory file /opt/gtm_V53004A/gdehelp.gld

Installation completed. Would you like all the temporary files removed from this directory? (y or n) y <== enter the y

cd /opt sudo rm gtm sudo ln -s gtm_V53004A_i686 gtm ls -l gtm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2009-08-14 17:52 gtm -> gtm_V53004A_i686 su - vista Password: vista@...:~$ gtm
 * Remove the gtm symlink if you have one and create a new one.
 * You can go to your vista user space and check the version:

GTM>W $ZVersion GT.M V5.3-004A Linux x86 GTM>Halt mupip upgrade /opt/lsb-gtm/EHR/g/mumps.dat /opt/worldvista/EHR/bin/vista_com.sh
 * GT.M is upgraded. The database is backed up, so it's safe to upgrade it to run with the new GT.M:
 * --and try it out:

Welcome to VistA Commander

1) Programmer Mode (D ^XUP) 2) User Mode (D ^ZU) 3) Fileman (D P^DI) ...

Prompt> 3

VA FileMan 22.0

Select OPTION:
 * Congratulations!

Installing and Using Unicode