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- | ===== A Working Perl Installation is Required ===== | + | ==== Duplicate, outdated page. ==== |
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- | Regardless of the OS, you must have a working Perl installation to use the cross-platform version of POPFile. | + | |
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- | * Windows users must have Perl 5.8.0 or above, available from [[http:// | + | |
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- | * All other users must have Perl 5.6.0 or above, available from [[http:// | + | |
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- | ===== Certain Perl Modules are Required ===== | + | |
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- | POPFile uses certain modules that may not be installed on your system by default. All of these modules are easily located at [[http:// | + | |
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- | * ActiveState Windows users | + | |
- | < | + | |
- | < | + | |
- | ppm> | + | |
- | ppm> | + | |
- | </ | + | |
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- | * Other OS Users (**Note: You should be logged in as root (superuser) when installing these modules**). | + | |
- | < | + | |
- | < | + | |
- | cpan> | + | |
- | cpan> | + | |
- | </ | + | |
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- | The current list of modules that you may need to install includes the following: | + | |
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- | - DBD:: | + | |
- | - MIME:: | + | |
- | - MIME:: | + | |
- | - Text:: | + | |
- | - Encode | + | |
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- | for version 0.22 of POPFile: | + | |
- | - Date:: | + | |
- | - HTML:: | + | |
- | - HTML:: | + | |
- | - DBI | + | |
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- | ===== Checking to See if a Module is Already Installed ===== | + | |
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- | To check and determine whether or not a particular module is already installed on your system, issue the following Perl one-liner. If you get a version number back, it's installed. If you get a Perl message **Can' | + | |
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- | < | + | |
- | perl -MMIME:: | + | |
- | perl -MMIME:: | + | |
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- | ===== Checking Your Version of Perl ===== | + | |
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- | To check the version of Perl that is installed on your system, issue the following one-line command; | + | |
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- | < | + | |
+ | Please see [[howtos: |
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