The crucial ingredient for all of this is
<htmlurl url="http://www.perl.org" name="Perl">. Earlier versions of
Spider required perl 5.004, however it is now <it>STRONGLY</it> 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>
<itemize>
-<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Data/Data-Dumper-2.10.tar.gz" name="Data-Dumper-2.101.tar.gz">
+<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Data/Data-Dumper-2.101.tar.gz" name="Data-Dumper-2.101.tar.gz"> <em> this is included in perl 5.6.1 and above </em>
<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Date/TimeDate-1.10.tar.gz" name="TimeDate-1.10.tar.gz">
-<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/IO/IO-1.20.tar.gz" name="IO-1.20.tar.gz (for perl 5.00403 and lower)">
+<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/IO/IO-1.20.tar.gz" name="IO-1.20.tar.gz"> (<em>for perl 5.00403 and lower</em>)
<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Net/Net-Telnet-3.03.tar.gz" name="Net-Telnet-3.03.tar.gz">
<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Curses/Curses-1.06.tar.gz" name="Curses-1.06.tar.gz">
<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Time/Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz" name="Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz">
Log in as 'root', and make sure you're at '/root' before you continue. Here are exactly the commands you must issue next: -
<verb>
-# 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
# cd ..
</verb>
+<p>
+Only if you need to do these (because your perl is old):-
+
+<verb>
+#
+# 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 ..
+#
+</verb>
+
<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.
</verb></tscreen>
<P>
-This is the call sign of your cluster. If you use an SSID then include it here
-also.
+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'.
<tscreen><verb>
$myalias = "G1TLH";