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<H2><A NAME="s1">1. Installation (Original version by Iain Phillips, G0RDI)</A></H2>
-<P>Last modified: 13 January 2001 by Ian Maude, G0VGS
-<P>
<H2><A NAME="ss1.1">1.1 Introduction</A>
</H2>
-<P>This section describes the installation of DX Spider v1.35 on a
-<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com">RedHat</A> Linux Distribution.
+<P>This section describes the installation of DX Spider v1.46 on a
+<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com">RedHat</A> Linux Distribution.
+Wherever possible I will try to include differences for other distributions.
I do not intend to try and cover the installation of Linux or the setup
of the AX25 utilities. If you need help on this then read Iains original
-HOWTO on the
-<A HREF="http://www.dxcluster.org">DXSpider</A>
-website.
+installation guide that comes with the Spider distribution.
<P>
<P>I am assuming a general knowledge of Linux and its commands. You should
know how to use <EM>tar</EM> and how to edit files using your favourite editor.
<P>
<P>The crucial ingredient for all of this is
-<A HREF="http://www.perl.org">Perl 5.004</A>. Now I know Perl 5.005
-is out and this will almost certainly work with it, but
-<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com">RedHat 5.1</A> comes with 5.004.
-<EM>Be Warned</EM>, earlier versions of
-<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com">RedHat</A> <B>do not</B> come
-with 5.004 as standard, you need to
-<A HREF="ftp://upgrade.redhat.com">upgrade</A><P>
+<A HREF="http://www.perl.org">Perl</A>. Earlier versions of
+Spider required perl 5.004, however it is now <I>STRONGLY</I> recommended
+that you use at least version 5.005_03 as this is the version being used
+in the development of Spider.
+<P>
<P>In addition to the standard Red Hat distribution you will require the
-following
-<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html">CPAN</A> modules: -
+following modules from
+<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html">http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html</A> ...
<P>
<P>
<UL>
<LI> MD5-1.7.tar.gz</LI>
<LI> Data-Dumper-2.10.tar.gz</LI>
-<LI> FreezeThaw-0.3.tar.gz</LI>
-<LI> MLDBM-2.00.tar.gz</LI>
<LI> TimeDate-1.08.tar.gz</LI>
<LI> IO-1.20.tar.gz</LI>
<LI> Net-Telnet-3.02.tar.gz</LI>
<P>I will assume that you have already downloaded the latest tarball of
the DXSpider software and are ready to install it. I am assuming version
-1.35 for this section but of course you would use the latest version.
+1.46 for this section but of course you would use the latest version.
<P>
<P>Login as root and create a user to run the cluster under. <B><I>UNDER
NO CIRCUMSTANCES USE ROOT AS THIS USER!</I></B>. I am going to use
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
# cd ~sysop
-# tar xvfz spider-1.35.tar.gz
+# tar xvfz spider-1.46.tar.gz
# ln -s ~sysop/spider /spider
# groupadd -g 251 spider (or another number)
</PRE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
$ cluster.pl
-DXSpider DX Cluster Version 1.35
+DXSpider DX Cluster Version 1.46
Copyright (c) 1998 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
loading prefixes ...
loading band data ...