A long circuitous path, but in the end — sucess!
Started off with darwinports, but that only got us 0.6.8 (current as of this writing was 0.6.27).
Then tried Fink. That got us up to 0.6.13
dating
Tried that version agains a LG phone. It wrked, but the LG phonewasn’t a GSM phome, and thus didnt understand the [...]

Long and winding road.
Download cmake source from www.cmake.org — Binary Package is only for Tiger right now. Configure (./bootstrap; make; sudo make install) and install
Download and configure mysql with

env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 CFLAGS=”-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe -no-cpp-precomp” CCFLAGS=”-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os [...]

When last we left this project, most things were working except freetype/truetype text used in dynamic graphs and maps

 On paper, this seems easy. Just move 70 GB of images and a dozen database tables to a brand new mac, and we’re done.
Well, not quite…
Step 1: prepare the mac out of the box
This was mostly straight-forward; however, I did a couple of things a little different hoping it would minimize problems down the road.
 
First, [...]

It is pretty simple — still, it might be worth me writing some documentation.
And too simple, for some: I see two folders there from non-UVM “contributors.” Apparently, I had the default permissions set such that “Everyone” could create folders. I have rescinded that permission, so you may want to try creating yet another new test [...]

Did a little research on wikis, to see if anything looked much better (criteruim being does it allow people to quickly create "personal" wikis on the fly like wikispaces does). Didn’t find anything notably better.
So, Installed Mediawiki 1.68 on LRG website. 
Then worked on making it use  LDAP  for authentication.

Downloaded, configured, and installed on my Mac

libjpeg
libpng
zlib
freetype
libgd
GD.pm

over and over agan, it seems.
But it was not for naught: I finaly got the Landscape Change Thumbnails/Zoom script to process all 12,000 files.
The Zoomify part was a bug in the ZoomifyBase.py code. There was a line
    tempImage = imageRow.resize((imageWidth/2, imageHeight/2), PIL.Image.ANTIALIAS)
well, if imageWidth or imageHeight was <=1, [...]

Finaly figured out secret: configure libgd –with-PREFIX=my_home, edit makefile and global replace libgd with libgd_033. Make, install. Switch to GD, perl Makefile.PL, edit makefile, change references to libgd to libgd_033 in my_home, make. Ta-da!

Tried to nstall GD.pm on anything. HA! Lots of version problems. No tangible progress yet.

Paul had TSG change ownership of all /:/perkins files to perkins:perkins; unfortunately, this swept up all /:/perkins/landscape files, too. Helped him unravel the problem

Figuring out how to make the new tablet work:

downloaded/installed MS Office from UVM campus agreement share
downloaded/installed/configured Thunderbird, which did some screwey stuff with mailboxes but eventually got going (although the Junk Mail filter, I didcovered later, was a b it too agressive)
calibrated pen (several times. Still not quite right)
played with image editing software (kinda crappy)
downloaded/installed [...]

M275E 1GB Tablet 2.0GHz (BTS05-11, $2,046.00)  to support my needs. First hour spent trying to make wireless card and VPN work. Pffffffffftttt. Next two hours installing software and updates. Acccccccckkkwwpfft.

Still tracking down the Dspace/Tomcat problems.
Frank told me about the lsof command, which lists files opened by a process. trying that on badger gave no results. trying it on my Mac gave instant results. Hmmm…
I did a ps auxww | grep dsspace to see what was running, so I could get the right process name [...]

Option 1, which should work, near as I can tell from several hours googling, is to build a "Trusted Keystore" — put a copy of the LDAP servers cert into a different keystore:
    keytool -import -file my_ldap_cert.cer -alias my_ldap_cert -keystore trusted.keystore
Now add that to your Tomcat (version 5.0.27 or better) container. For example,
    <Connector [...]

Got hold of a geotrust signed certificate for badger. That was easy (and $110 of UVM money).
Hard part was getting it installed, since I built the key and the certificate signing request (CSR) with openssl rather than keytool, and it was all being installed in tomcat.
The Tomcat SSL How-To proved to be the definitive source, [...]