Nepomuk Installation

Welcome! This document guides you through the setup process. You have to install NEPOMUK before running it. After gathering information about you Nepomuk will start.

before running the installation control that you have all the required:




now double-click the downloaded .jar file - this will start the executable jar file using Java. The installer is written in Java. If double-clicking the .jar file does not work, go to a command-line and type java -jar <downloadedjarfile.jar>

Installation Wizard


Step 1

Language Selection
Select your favorite Language

Step 2


Welcome Message (click next)

Step 3


Software Information (click next)

Step 4


Please accept the License agreement

Step 5


Select the Installation Path

Step 6


If the directory does not exist it will be created


Step 7


Select the Installation configuration


Step 8


If every think will be OK you should see this message


Please remember to enter your name and email address. This information will identify you in the Nepomuk system and you can not change this after setup process.

Note: German Umlauts are not allowed in the name. You will get an exception saying "Please enter your name" - simply replace the umlauts by 'oe', 'ae', or 'ue'.



Installing IBM Galaxy API

IBM Galaxy (aka IBM LanguageWare Miner for Multidimensional Socio-Semantic Networks) is needed for Comp-StrucRec component in Nepomuk to perform semantic analysis of natural language texts and provide recommendations.

Step 1

Download galaxy-api-1.1.zip from IBM Alphaworks site http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/galaxy/download. Free registration required.

Step 2

Unzip downloaded zip file. Copy contents of galaxy-api/galaxy-api/plugins folder into plugins folder of Nepomuk PSEW installation (on Windows, default location is C:\Program Files\NEPOMUK\plugins).

Step 3

If you have run Nepomuk before installing IBM Galaxy API, then Nepomuk must be run once with "-clean" switch (on Windows, run "nepomuk.exe -clean" from Nepomuk installation folder). Otherwise, if this is a clean installation of Nepomuk, this step is unnecessary.


Your first step in Nepomuk

Navigate to the folder where you installed NEPOMUK and start it.

Nepomuk detects what data-sources you have in your computer. You can choose which data-sources you want to have available in Nepomuk. A Data-source is a destination in your computer where your private data is being hold. It may be your documents directory, mailbox in your favourite e-mail client or any other directory on your local hard disk.


Now you will be informed that Nepomuk is starting to read and analyze the data from your data-sources. That means setup has successfully finished. You can see in the Progress View that there are tasks in background. You will be notified when crawling will end. Reading your data can last many hours for the first time.

When setup is finished! You can enjoy your Nepomuk experience. You may want to start by using your PIMO Viewer to work with your data. To learn more abou this go to UsingPimoPerspective?. Finally please note that, depending on your firewall setting you may need to Unblock the Nepomuk application


Thank you for using Nepomuk!




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