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-<LI> Data-Dumper-2.101.tar.gz</LI>
-<LI> TimeDate-1.10.tar.gz</LI>
-<LI> IO-1.20.tar.gz (for perl 5.00403 and lower)</LI>
-<LI> Net-Telnet-3.02.tar.gz</LI>
-<LI> Curses-1.05.tar.gz</LI>
-<LI> Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz</LI>
+<LI>
+<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Data/Data-Dumper-2.10.tar.gz">Data-Dumper-2.10.tar.gz</A></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>
+<LI>
+<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Net/Net-Telnet-3.02.tar.gz">Net-Telnet-3.02.tar.gz</A></LI>
+<LI>
+<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Curses/Curses-1.06.tar.gz">Curses-1.06.tar.gz</A></LI>
+<LI>
+<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Time/Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz">Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz</A></LI>
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-<P><EM>Do</EM> get the latest versions of these packages and install them
-but use the above list as the earliest versions usable.
+<P>Copy the CPAN modules listed above to a convenient place on your computer. One good place would be /usr/local/packages, and the instructions which follow will assume that that's where you have put them.
+<P>
+<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>
+<PRE>
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Data-Dumper-2.10.tar.gz
+# cd Data-Dumper-2.10
+# 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 test
+# 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-3.02.tar.gz
+# cd Net-Telnet-3.02
+# perl Makefile.PL
+# make test
+# make install
+# cd ..
+#
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Curses-1.06.tar.gz
+# cd Curses-1.06
+# perl Makefile.PL
+# make test
+# make install
+# cd ..
+#
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz
+# cd Time-HiRes-01.20
+# 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 IO, above.
+<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss1.2">1.2 Preparation</A>
</H2>
on your security requirements you may wish to use an existing user,
however this is your own choice.
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-<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
# adduser -m sysop
</PRE>
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
+<P>For SUSE distributions, the command would be ..
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+# useradd -m sysop
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>
<P>Now set a password for the user ...
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<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
</PRE>
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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-<H2><A NAME="ss1.5">1.5 Starting up for the first time</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss1.5">1.5 The client program</A>
+</H2>
+
+<P>In earlier versions of Spider, all the processes were Perl scripts. This
+was fine but with a lot of users your computer memory would soon be used up.
+To combat this a new client was written in "C". This client only works for
+<EM>incoming</EM> connects at the moment. Before you can use it though it
+has to be "made". CD to /spider/src and type <EM>make</EM>. You
+should see the output on your screen and hopefully now have a small C program
+called <EM>client</EM>. Leave it in this directory.
+<P>
+<P>
+<H2><A NAME="ss1.6">1.6 Starting up for the first time</A>
</H2>
<P>We can now bring spider up for the first time and see if all is well or not!
<P>
<P>and both the cluster and the client should return to Linux prompts.
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-<H2><A NAME="ss1.6">1.6 The Client program</A>
-</H2>
-
-<P>In earlier versions of Spider, all the processes were Perl scripts. This
-was fine but with a lot of users your computer memory would soon be used up.
-To combat this a new client was written in "C". This client only works for
-<EM>incoming</EM> connects at the moment. Before you can use it though it
-has to be "made". CD to /spider/src and type <EM>make</EM>. You
-should see the output on your screen and hopefully now have a small C program
-called <EM>client</EM>. Leave it in this directory.
-<P>
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