%myvars; ]> Install readline: Download readline from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline/readline-4.3.tar.gz into /usr/local/src Extract readline in /usr/local/src, configure, compile, and install: su - root cd /usr/local/src tar xvfz readline-4.3.tar.gz readline-4.3 ./configure make make install Proceed with the Unix-like system instructions. OS X is incompatible with Oracle 8, and Oracle 9i on OSX is not yet verified for OpenACS. So continue with . Additional special steps for OS X are documented inline with the standard Unix-like instructions. Additional resources for installing on OS X. OpenACS on Mac OS X Quickstart An older forum thread ($Id: macinstall.xml,v 1.6 2006/07/17 05:38:37 torbenb Exp $)