[Dxspider-support] ubuntu 7.4 feasty fawn

[Stephen M. Murphy]

Danny,

I ran into the same situation in not finding the same module revisions 
mentioned in the manual, so I just installed the latest revs and it 
works  just fine.

73,

Steve N8NM


 moss wrote:
> Stephen M. Murphy wrote:
>   
>> You'll need to install the 'c' compiler to build the client program 
>> (sudo apt-get install build-essential), but it sounds as though you 
>> haven't quite gotten to that point yet. 
>>
>> Have you installed the perl stuff mentioned in the installation manual, 
>> and made the necessary changes to the configuration files?
>>
>> Another thing that comes to mind is to check where you're directories 
>> are... they should be at ./spider/*... if they're at 
>> ./home/username/spider/*, you'll get all sorts of errors unless you make 
>> some changes to the code... I found it quicker and easier to simply move 
>> everything to ./ as root and then change the permissions.
>>
>> I have two nodes running, one is telnet-only and runs under Xubuntu 7.04 
>> (Ubuntu with XFCE rather than Gnome), the other has packet and telnet 
>> and runs under Debian Etch.  I'd be happy to send you copies of any of 
>> my config files, if that would be of help to you.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Steve N8NM
>>
>>   
>>
>>     
> HI Steve,
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> Ok I have all the spider stuff is in the home/sysop/spider but I have 
> made a simbolic link as on the setup web page
>
> I have edited this file with the same stuff that I have running on fedora so they match DXVars.pm 
>
> I could only download two of the cpan program from the links on the web 
> page that was
>
> http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Time/Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz
>
> http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Time/Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz
>
> only one of these would compile the other gave a lot of errors and failed
> But I would love to have a look at your config files thank you very much
> I will go and google  for the other missing files.
>
> http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Date/TimeDate-2.27.tar.gz
> http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Digest/Digest-SHA1-2.01.tar.gz
> http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Curses/Curses-1.08a.tar.gz
>
> Thank you
>
>  --
> Best Regards
> Danny Moss
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