aws.amazon.com login with your amazon AWS account. New instance - ubuntu, name it, set up elastic IP and connect to the instance (opt) open up port 8383 ssh -i "gs3-clean-svn-ubuntu.pem" ubuntu@ec2-52-41-25-23.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk g++ subversion ant emacs24-nox imagemagick make svn co http://svn.greenstone.org/main/trunk/greenstone3 ant edit build.properties => uncomment checkout.gnomelib.ext=true ant prepare (because can't find jni.h) export JAVA_HOME=path to java eg /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64 export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH ant install