| # Gwsetup

Gwsetup is a program which allows you to start with GeneWeb without having to type commands. If you use this program you can completely ignore the chapter GeneWeb - Getting Started reserved to the ones who prefer type commands.

To use gwsetup:

- under Windows, simply go to the main directory of your GeneWeb distribution and double-click on "gwsetup". A windows appears, asks you to choose your language and tell you to open some specific address in your Web browser. Warning: you must not delete the window which displays all that! Because in this window the program gwsetup runs, which dialogs with your Web navigator: if you delete the windows, the program gwsetup stops. You can reduce this window in the processes bar with the reduce button in the upper right corner of the Window.
- under Linux, if you installed the rpm package, you probably have nothing to do, the program gwsetup has been automatically launched. When installing the package, a message told you to open some specific address: you must use it each time you want to take care of your data bases.
- if you installed GeneWeb under Unix or Linux by another method, you can launch gwsetup just by typing "./gwsetup" in an xterm.

Then gwsetup allows you, using your Web navigator, to create a new database, or create a database from a GEDCOM file, or, later, to extract a GEDCOM file from your database, to change displaying parameters, and so on.

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