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<P>The crucial ingredient for all of this is
<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
+that you use at least version 5.6.1 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
<P>
<UL>
<LI>
-<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Data/Data-Dumper-2.10.tar.gz">Data-Dumper-2.101.tar.gz</A></LI>
+<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Data/Data-Dumper-2.101.tar.gz">Data-Dumper-2.101.tar.gz</A> <EM> this is included in perl 5.6.1 and above </EM></LI>
<LI>
-<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Date/TimeDate-1.10.tar.gz">TimeDate-1.10.tar.gz</A></LI>
+<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Date/TimeDate-2.27.tar.gz">TimeDate-2.27.tar.gz</A></LI>
<LI>
-<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/IO/IO-1.20.tar.gz">IO-1.20.tar.gz (for perl 5.00403 and lower)</A></LI>
+<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/IO/IO-1.20.tar.gz">IO-1.20.tar.gz</A> (<EM>for perl 5.00403 and lower</EM>)</LI>
<LI>
-<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Net/Net-Telnet-3.02.tar.gz">Net-Telnet-3.03.tar.gz</A></LI>
+<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Net/Net-Telnet-3.03.tar.gz">Net-Telnet-3.03.tar.gz</A></LI>
<LI>
-<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Curses/Curses-1.06.tar.gz">Curses-1.06.tar.gz</A></LI>
+<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Curses/Curses-1.08a.tar.gz">Curses-1.08a.tar.gz</A></LI>
<LI>
-<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Time/Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz">Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz</A></LI>
+<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Time/Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz">Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz</A> (<EM>for perl versions lower than 5.8 </EM>)</LI>
<LI>
<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Digest/Digest-SHA1-2.01.tar.gz">Digest-SHA1-2.01.tar.gz</A></LI>
</UL>
</P>
+<P>
+On most modern distributions most (if not all) the modules you will need are either included or
+can be loaded automatically. Please consult your distro's instructions for loading new programs
+and look for modules that usually start with the string "perl-". For instance:-</P>
+<P>
+<UL>
+<LI>Mandrake: urpmi perl-TimeDate perl-Digest-SHA1 perl-Curses perl-Net-Telnet</LI>
+<LI>Redhat/Fedora: up2date perl-TimeDate perl-Digest-SHA1 perl-Curses perl-Net-Telnet</LI>
+<LI>SuSE: use yast</LI>
+<LI>Debian: use apt-get</LI>
+</UL>
+</P>
+
+<P>Some distros are now packaging perl-DB_File separately as well, so you may have to add that to the list
+above.</P>
+
<P>Copy the CPAN modules listed above to a convenient place on your computer. One good
place would be /usr/local/packages, and the instructions which follow will assume that
that's where you have put them.</P>
<P>Log in as 'root', and make sure you're at '/root' before you continue. Here are exactly the commands you must issue next: -</P>
<P>
<PRE>
-# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Data-Dumper-2.101.tar.gz
-# cd Data-Dumper-2.101
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/TimeDate-2.27.tar.gz
+# cd TimeDate-2.27
# perl Makefile.PL
# make test
# make install
# cd ..
#
-# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/TimeDate-1.10.tar.gz
-# cd TimeDate-1.10
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Net-Telnet-3.03.tar.gz
+# cd Net-Telnet-3.02
# perl Makefile.PL
# make test
# make install
# cd ..
#
-# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/IO-1.20.tar.gz
-# cd IO-1.20
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Curses-1.08a.tar.gz
+# cd Curses-1.08a
# perl Makefile.PL
# make test
-# make install UNINST=1
+# make install
# cd ..
#
-# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Net-Telnet-3.03.tar.gz
-# cd Net-Telnet-3.02
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz
+# cd Time-HiRes-01.20
# perl Makefile.PL
# make test
# make install
# cd ..
#
-# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Curses-1.06.tar.gz
-# cd Curses-1.06
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Digest-SHA1-2.01.tar.gz
+# cd Digest-SHA1-2.01
# perl Makefile.PL
# make test
# make install
# cd ..
+</PRE>
+</P>
+
+<P>Only if you need to do these because your perl is old:-</P>
+<P>
+<PRE>
#
-# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz
-# cd Time-HiRes-01.20
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/IO-1.20.tar.gz
+# cd IO-1.20
# perl Makefile.PL
# make test
-# make install
+# make install UNINST=1
# cd ..
#
-# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Digest-SHA1-2.01.tar.gz
-# cd Digest-SHA1-2.01
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Data-Dumper-2.101.tar.gz
+# cd Data-Dumper-2.101
# perl Makefile.PL
# make test
# make install
# cd ..
+#
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-<P>This is the call sign of your cluster. If you use an SSID then include it here
-also.</P>
+<P>This is the call sign of your cluster. Here in the UK we have
+separate callsigns for our cluster nodes. If you can't use a different callsign I suggest
+you use an SSID of '-2' for the node callsign '$mycall'.</P>
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