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6 Maypole::Manual::Install - installing Maypole
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9 The first thing you're going to need to do to get Maypole running is to
10 install it. Maypole needs an absolute shedload of Perl modules from
11 CPAN to do its job. I am unrepentant about this. Maypole does a lot of
12 work, so that you don't have to. This is called code re-use, and if
13 we're serious about code re-use, then Maypole should be re-using as
14 much code as possible in terms of Perl modules. In another sense, this
15 gives the impression that Maypole doesn't actually do all that much
16 itself, because all it's doing is gluing together already-existing
17 code. Well, welcome to code re-use.
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19 The downside of code re-use is, of course, that you then have to
20 install a shedload of Perl modules from CPAN. If you're using OpenBSD
21 or FreeBSD, the wonderful ports system will be your friend. There's a
22 Maypole port in "p5-Maypole". Just type "make install".
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24 Debian users, hang in there. There's a package coming.
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26 For other Unices, the CPANPLUS or "CPAN" modules will help with this.
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29 "CPAN.pm" away. In any case, one of these two should get all that
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35 Information on installing under Windows is available from the wiki -
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38 More information of installing under various Linux flavours is
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41 You're also going to need a database server and a web server. For
42 databases, I recommend SQLite (if you install the "DBD::SQLite" module,
43 you get the SQLite library for free) for prototyping and mysql for
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48 There is a "CGI::Maypole" frontend available to run as a standalone CGI
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52 distribution also includes the manual, of which this is a part. You can
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