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16 <H2><A NAME="s1">1. Installation </A></H2>
18 <H2><A NAME="ss1.1">1.1 Where do I get DXSpider?</A>
21 <P>All things Spider can be found at
22 <A HREF="http://www.dxcluster.org">www.dxcluster.org</A> and the actual program and patches can be found in the
23 <A HREF="http://www.dxcluster.org/download/index.html">download</A> area.
25 <H2><A NAME="ss1.2">1.2 How do I use the patches?</A>
28 <P>Patching is done in the standard linux way ...
32 zcat /tmp/patch-1.40 | patch -p0
36 <P>assuming the patch version you are using is 1.40 and resides in /tmp!
38 <P>Be aware that each patch assumes the previous patch has been applied. That
39 is to say if you are patching from version 1.38 to 1.40 you would first need
40 to apply patch-1.39 and then patch-1.40.
42 <H2><A NAME="ss1.3">1.3 If I use a tarball to overwrite my installation, what happens to my configuration?</A>
45 <P>The tarballs are designed to not overwrite your existing configuration
46 and can be used at any time to update your Spider software. All the key
47 files have the suffix .issue (eg. DXVars.pm.issue) at default.
49 <H2><A NAME="ss1.4">1.4 I am running RedHat 5.2 and I am getting strange errors, what is wrong?</A>
52 <P>The version of Perl that comes with 5.2 seems to be some kind of pre-release
53 and is broken. You can get a new version of perl from
54 <A HREF="http://www.dxcluster.org/download/index.html">www.dxcluster.org</A>
56 <A HREF="ftp://updates.redhat.com">ftp://updates.redhat.com</A>.
57 Don't forget to patch it with the CPAN modules.
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