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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>
<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-3.03.tar.gz">Net-Telnet-3.03.tar.gz</A></LI>
<LI>
<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>
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<PRE>
-# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Data-Dumper-2.101.tar.gz
-# cd Data-Dumper-2.101
-# perl Makefile.PL
-# make test
-# make install
-# cd ..
-#
# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/TimeDate-1.10.tar.gz
# cd TimeDate-1.10
# perl Makefile.PL
# make install
# cd ..
#
-# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/IO-1.20.tar.gz
-# cd IO-1.20
-# perl Makefile.PL
-# make test
-# make install UNINST=1
-# cd ..
-#
# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Net-Telnet-3.03.tar.gz
# cd Net-Telnet-3.02
# perl Makefile.PL
</PRE>
</P>
+<P>Only if you need to do these (because your perl is old):-</P>
+<P>
+<PRE>
+#
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/IO-1.20.tar.gz
+# cd IO-1.20
+# perl Makefile.PL
+# make test
+# make install UNINST=1
+# cd ..
+#
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Data-Dumper-2.101.tar.gz
+# cd Data-Dumper-2.101
+# perl Makefile.PL
+# make test
+# make install
+# cd ..
+#
+</PRE>
+</P>
+
<P>Do not fall into the trap of thinking they're all the same, just because they
nearly are! Pay particular attention to the instructions of <EM>IO</EM>, above.</P>
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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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