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diff --git a/htdocs/docs/install.html b/htdocs/docs/install.html
index b9b4a97d0..5db8f2e4e 100644
--- a/htdocs/docs/install.html
+++ b/htdocs/docs/install.html
@@ -7,14 +7,17 @@ Before installing, you need:
- A web server, such as Apache-SSL or Apache
- SSH
-
- Perl (at least 5.004_04)
-
- A database engine supported by Perl's DBI, such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
+
- Perl (at least 5.004_04 for the 5.004 series or 5.005_03 for the 5.005 series. Don't enable experimental features like threads or the PerlIO abstraction layer.)
+
- A database engine supported by Perl's DBI, such as MySQL or PostgreSQL (see the PostgreSQL notes)
- Perl modules
+ - Array-PrintCols
+
- Term-Query
- MIME-Base64
- Data-Dumper
-
- MD5
+
- Digest-MD5
- URI
+
- HTML-Parser
- libnet
- libwww-perl
- Business-CreditCard
@@ -32,8 +35,8 @@ Before installing, you need:
Install the Freeside distribution:
- Add the user `freeside' to your system.
-
- Add the freeside database to your database engine. (with MySQL) (with PostgreSQL)
-
- Allow the freeside user full access to the freeside database. (with MySQL) (with PostgreSQL)
+
- Add the freeside database to your database engine. (with MySQL) (with PostgreSQL)
+
- Allow the freeside user full access to the freeside database. (with MySQL) (with PostgreSQL)
- Unpack the tarball:
gunzip -c fs-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xvf -
- Copy or link fs-x.y.z/site_perl to FS in your site_perl directory. (try `
perl -V
' if unsure) mkdir /usr/local/lib/site_perl/FS
cp fs-x.y.z/site_perl/* /usr/local/lib/site_perl/FS
or ln -s /full/path/to/fs-x.y.z/site_perl /usr/local/lib/site_perl/FS
@@ -51,14 +54,14 @@ chmod 4755 browse/*.cgi edit/*.cgi edit/process/*.cgi misc/*.cgi misc/process/*.
cd /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside
chown -R freeside .
chmod 755 browse/*.cgi edit/*.cgi edit/process/*.cgi misc/*.cgi misc/process/*.cgi search/*.cgi view/*.cgi
- - Use mod_perl. You should run a separate iteration of Apache[-SSL] as the freeside user. (Warning: The redirect method of CGI.pm 2.36 [as distributed with Perl 5.004_04] is broken under mod_perl. Downlaod the current version from CPAN.)
+
- Use mod_perl. You should run a separate iteration of Apache[-SSL] as the freeside user. (Warning: The redirect method of CGI.pm 2.36 [as distributed with Perl 5.004_04] is broken under mod_perl. Downlaod the current version from CPAN. Apache 1.3.6 is also highly recommended because of signal handling problems in earlier versions.)
cd /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside
chown -R root .
chmod 755 browse/*.cgi edit/*.cgi edit/process/*.cgi misc/*.cgi misc/process/*.cgi search/*.cgi view/*.cgi
- Create the necessary configuration files.
- Create the `/usr/local/etc/freeside/counters.datasrc', and
- `/usr/local/etc/freeside/export.datasrc' directories for each datasrc.
+ `/usr/local/etc/freeside/export.datasrc' directories for each datasrc (owned by the freeside user).
- As the freeside user, run bin/fs-setup to create the database tables.