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Starting GNUmed

As you might know GNUmed can be run on different operating systems such as GNU/Linux, Apple's MacOSX and MS Windows. Because of that there is no single way of starting GNUmed.

On Windows, you can start the GNUmed client via the Start menu > Programs > GNUmed > GNUmed.

On GNU/Linux

Login dialog

Inside the login dialog you are asked to provide the login and password to be able to access GNUmed. You can obtain this information from your database administrator.

By default, GNUmed will offer to connect to one of the public test servers (below). Setting up your own server/database, for those who wish, is covered in a separate topic. The servers/databases to which a client can connect are provided/defined as a profile inside the file gnumed.conf found (most likely) in the directory /home/user_name/.gnumed/. If not, take a look at the file gnumed.conf.example in the directory /some_dir/gnumed/client/etc/.

Hit OK and wait for GNUmed to power up the user interface. Meanwhile you be shown which plugins GNUmed is about to load and you will be notified about success or failure.

Currently (06/2004) there exist three public GNUmed test servers. When accessing one of these servers from around the world, be prepared to wait 30-60 seconds for test data to be fetched and processed:

Try to login in with the following credentials:

server: salaam.homeunix.com / anubis.homeunix.com (this is the default)
user: any-doc (this is the default)
password: any-doc

If you have installed a local server, use

server: localhost (available in the pop-up)
user: any-doc
password: any-doc

or ask your administrator for a real GNUmed login.