Recent news WebMO 10.0 is now available for free download! WebMO 10.0 Pro and Enterprise have a variety of additional features and is available for purchase. WebMO can now be installed on Windows, Mac, and Unix servers!
March 12, 2010

These instructions are to be used for upgrading an existing WebMO configuration. To install a copy of WebMO for the first time, refer to the WebMO installation instructions instead.

1. Locate your WebMO license number and globals.int file. Login to WebMO as admin and click Version Manager. Note:
   • the WebMO license number
   • the full path of the WebMO globals.int file
   These are necessary to download the WebMO update and to install the update, respectively.
   
2. Download the most recent version of "WebMO for Linux/Mac" to your mac. (The WebMO.*.tar.gz distribution will automatically be expanded into a WebMO.*.tar file.) If you have misplaced your WebMO password, enter the license number from the previous step with a password of "?" on the download page, and your password will be automatically emailed to you.
3. Untar the WebMO distribution. Start a Terminal session.
       $ cd {download directory}
       $ tar xf WebMO.9.x.xxx.tar
   
4. Run the upgrade script.
       $ cd WebMO.install
       $ perl upgrade.pl
   
5. Follow the prompts in the upgrade script. Specify the absolute location of your globals.int file. After the distribution files are copied, the command line portion of WebMO upgrade is complete.
   
6. If you are upgrading WebMO Pro/Enterprise and have configured any remote servers, login to WebMO as admin, click the Remote Server Manager, choose the edit servers tab, and click the Upgrade icon for each server.
   
7. Login to WebMO as a user and run a test job.
   
8. If you wish to install additional computational chemistry programs on your mac, see the separate support pages for installing binary versions of Gamess, Gaussian, Mopac. Then enable, configure, and test these packages as described.
9. Questions or feedback? Please visit the WebMO Support Forum or send email to support@webmo.net.