<li><a href="http://www.perl.com/">Perl</a> Don't enable experimental features like threads or the PerlIO abstraction layer.
<li>A <b>transactional</b> database engine supported by Perl's <a href="http://www.hermetica.com/technologia/DBI/">DBI</a>.
<ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a> is recommended.
+ <li><a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a> (v7 or higher) is recommended.
<li>MySQL has been reported to work. <b>MySQL's default <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/M/y/MyISAM.html">MyISAM</a> and <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/I/S/ISAM.html">ISAM</a> table types are not supported</b>. If you really want to use MySQL, you need to use one of the new <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/T/a/Table_types.html">transaction-safe table types</a> such as <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/B/D/BDB.html">BDB</a>, and set it as the default table type using the <code>--default-table-type=BDB</code> <a href="http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_MySQL_Database_Administration.html#Command-line_options">mysqld command-line option</a> or by setting <code>default-table-type=BDB</code> in the <a href="http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_MySQL_Database_Administration.html#Option_files">my.cnf option file</a>.
</ul>
<li>Perl modules (<a href="http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/CPAN.html">CPAN</a> will query, download and build perl modules automatically)
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=FreezeThaw">FreezeThaw</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=String-Approx">String-Approx</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Text-Template">Text-Template</a>
+ <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Archive-Tar">Archive-Tar</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBI">DBI</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=DBD">DBD for your database engine</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBIx-DataSource">DBIx-DataSource</a>
<ul>
<li> with <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1/postgres/user-manag.html#DATABASE-USERS">PostgreSQL</a>:
<pre>
-$ su freeside
+$ su postgres
$ createuser -P freeside</pre>
<li> with <a href="http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_MySQL_Database_Administration.html#User_Account_Management">MySQL</a>:
<pre>
<pre>
$ su
# make create-database</pre>
+ (or manually, with Postgres:)
+ <pre>
+$ su freeside
+$ createdb freeside</pre>
+ (with MySQL:)
+ <pre>
+$ mysqladmin -u freeside -p create freeside </pre>
<li>Build and install the Perl modules:
<pre>
$ make perl-modules
$MLDBM::RemoveTaint = 1;
</Perl>
PerlSetVar Global /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/
+PerlSetVar Debug 2
</Directory>
</pre></font>
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