GemStone/S software

If you are just getting started with GemStone, we strongly recommend the GLASS Virtual Appliance, which provides a completely pre-configured, ready-to-run GLASS system packaged as a VMware Virtual Appliance. It contains a Squeak image you can use to develop Seaside applications.

If you have experience installing GemStone/S, and are comfortable with setting up Apache and FastCGI and other system and network administration tasks, you may download a native GemStone/S Web Edition for Linux, or a preview of the upcoming Mac OS X Leopard version. These include GemStone/S 2.3 and Seaside 2.8, but not Linux, Apache, or a Squeak VM.

The simplest way to install the GemStone/S Web Edition is to download and execute one of the shell scripts below. They create a soft link to GemStone in /opt/gemstone/product. If /opt/gemstone/product already exists, you should rename or remove it before executing the script.

Squeak image and GemStone/S libraries

If you want to use a Squeak image running natively on your machine instead of in the GLASS Virtual Appliance, download an appropriate version of GemTools. It contains everything you need to connect to GemStone/S and start developing a Seaside application – Squeak image/changes, GemStone library, even a Squeak VM. It runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. This is the simplest way to get Squeak working with the GLASS Virtual Appliance. You can also use it to connect to a native GemStone/S Web Edition by replacing "glass" in the login box with "localhost" or your hostname.

If you want to 'build your own' for GemStone/S 2.3, download a compatible Squeak image and 32-bit GemStone/S library for your platform. You'll also need a 32-bit Squeak 3.9 VM from squeak.org.