Installation documentation issues

[HDVUCAIR]

After posting elsewhere about a problem I was having with a MIDAS installation I inherited from someone else, I decided to try installing MIDAS myself on a fresh Ubuntu system. I found a few problems with the documentation at readthedocs:

On the main installation page after the Dependencies step, the example tar commands are shown with the argument "cf". I suspect this should be xzf to both extract and gunzip the archives (rather than create them with cf).

I also could find no instructions for how to configure the initial databases within the database server. In my case, I'm using mysql. I followed the old kitware instructions.

The instructions at kitware however, don't make note of the additional "socket" text entry box that shows up during the first visit and setup of the MIDAS server. I wasn't sure what to put there. Since I encounter an "unable to find sql" error on the next page, I suspect I'm missing something important about the sql setup.

John.

[jamiesnape]

You should be able to just leave the socket box empty if you do not wish to use sockets. Otherwise you would need to full path to mysql.sock, which would be something like /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock.