How do I set up screen-scraper on BSD or Solaris?

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The easiest way to install on a Unix-based operating system that isn't Linux, such as BSD, is to first install screen-scraper on a Linux machine. Once installed, you'll want to zip or tarball up the directory where it's installed, then copy it over to the target machine (running something like BSD). On the target machine, decompress the archive into the directory where you'd like screen-scraper to live. Once that's done, edit the "resource/conf/screen-scraper.properties" file so that the "InstallDirectory" contains the path to the directory.

At this point you'll need to install a Java Virtual Machine whose version is at least 1.5. Once installed, edit both tthe "server" and "screen-scraper" shell scripts found in screen-scraper's install folder. In both files un-comment the "INSTALL4J_JAVA_HOME_OVERRIDE" parameter at the top, and give it the path to your JRE install location. From here you can launch screen-scraper as you normally do with the "server" and "screen-scraper" scripts.