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<h2>REQUIRMENTS:</h2>
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Don't get intimidated, this is just to cover all bases, most computer
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systems meet the requirements.<p>
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<b>PERL</b>: Yes, preferably Perl 5.004.04 or greater.
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<p> <b>FTP CAPABILITIES (optional)</b>: You may need to get <A
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HREF="ftp://www.perl.com/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/by-category/05_Networking_Devices_IPC/Net/libnet-1.0606.tar.gz">Net::FTP</A>
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(Debian libnet-perl package) which depends on Data::Dumper (Debian
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data-dumper package). You also need <b>gcc</b> if you do not have a
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Debian system so that <em>swim</em> can figure out what architecture your
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machine is. You can also find these modules at the <A
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HREF="http://www.perl.com">CPAN mirrors</A> or the PACKAGES below.
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<p> <b>READLINE CAPABILITIES (optional)</b>: For nice readline
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cpabilities get <A
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HREF="ftp://www.perl.com/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/Term/Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.03.tar.gz">Term::ReadLine::Gnu</A>
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or alternatively <A
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HREF="ftp://www.perl.com/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/Term/Term-ReadLine-Perl-0.990
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6.tar.gz">Term::ReadLine::Perl</A> which depends on <A
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HREF="ftp://www.perl.com/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/Term/TermReadKey-2.12.tar.gz">Term::ReadKey</A>
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. <em>Term::ReadLine::Gnu</em> may be tricky to set-up on non Debian
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systems because it depends on <em>ncurses3.4</em> and the <em>GNU Readline
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Library version 2.1 or later</em>, but <em>Term::ReadLine::Perl</em> is
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much easier to set-up and allows a huge amount of package names to be
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present on the command line without a segmentation fault. You could get
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swim's ftp capabilities working first, and then just fetch the Debian
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ReadLine package(s) and then use swim's --extract option to set the
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package(s) up, but, it is sure fun doing a 'make test' when setting up the
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ReadLine modules! You can also find these modules at the <A
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HREF="http://www.perl.com">CPAN mirrors</A> or the PACKAGES below. <p>
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<b>DATABASE CAPABILITIES</b>: DB_File comes standard with Perl. But,
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this doesn't mean it is compiled for the newer Berkeley Database
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Libraries. DB 1.85 has
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known <A
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HREF="http://www.sleepycat.com/historic.html">
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bugs</A> which effect SWIM. SWIM can work with
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1.85, but <kbd>--rebuildflatdb</kbd> and <kbd>--rebuildflatndb</kbd> will
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not work properly. You can run a test to find out whether or not you need
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to make the change if you have db_dump available on your system (which
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db_dump). Enter this:
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<P>
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<code>perl -e 'use DB_File; tie %testdb,'DB_File',"testdb";';<br>
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db_dump testdb</code>
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<P>If 'db_dump testdb' produces an error you need to make the change by
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installing the newest DB_File. If you have a version of libc6 less than
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2.1, first, install a new version ( 2.3.4 or greater) of the <A
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HREF="http://www.sleepycat.com">Berkeley DB</A> if you don't already
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have it installed. If you get
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<A
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HREF="ftp://www.perl.com/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/DB_File/DB_File-1.65.tar.gz">
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DB_File</A>
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from CPAN you will need to edit
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config.in to point to the location of where libdb2 installed db.h, where
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libdb2 is installed on your system, and the name of the library. For
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Debian this would be:
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<P><code>INCLUDE = /usr/include/db2<br>
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LIB = /usr/lib<br>
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DBNAME = -ldb2</code>
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<p><b>PACKAGES</b>: You can get the CPAN modules in some package formats.
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Debian 2.1 and Red Hat 5.0 have been tested with these packages:
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<p>
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<u><em>Debian</em></u><br>
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<A
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HREF="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/libnet-perl.html">libnet-perl</A>
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and<br>
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<A
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HREF="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/data-dumper.html">data-dumper</A>
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and<br>
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<A
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HREF="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/interpreters/libterm-readline-gnu-perl.html">libterm-readline-gnu-perl</A>
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(plus a lot more) or<br>
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<A
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HREF="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/interpreters/libterm-readline-perl-perl.html">libterm-readline-perl-perl</A>
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and<br>
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<A
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HREF="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/libs/libterm-readkey-perl.html">libterm-readkey-perl</A><br>
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<A HREF="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/libs/libdb2.html">libdb2</A>
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(dump_db utility is now part of libc6 2.1)<br>
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<u><em>Red Hat</em></u><br>
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<A
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HREF="http://filewatcher.org/filename-search/?q=perl-libnet">perl-libnet</A>
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and<br>
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<A
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HREF="http://filewatcher.org/filename-search/?q=perl-Data-Dumper">perl-Data-Dumper</A><br>
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<A HREF="http://filewatcher.org/description-search/?q=libdb">db-?</a>
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<b>USER</b>: root. Some of swim's most important functions will not work
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properly unless you are running the program as root.
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<p><b>HARD DRIVE SPACE</b>: Make sure you have enough hard drive space.
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1500
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installed packages produces a 10MB fileindex.deb, and the virtual
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not-installed filesystem database for the unstable distribution is now
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over 40MB. 100MB of free space on your hard drive is probably a good
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safety margin, if you run out of hard drive space the program will just
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hang or quit.
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<p>
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<b>MEMORY</b>: Databases made for an installed Debian system require
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memory in proportion to the amount of packages actually installed; the
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<kbd>--lowmem</kbd> option is an excellent alternative for making the
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databases if the computer system is either overloaded or low on memory.
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If you get "out of memory" warnings try to free up some memory first then
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make the databases. You can also avoid making the virtual filesystem by
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not using the <kbd>--Contents</kbd> option or using the FDB argument for
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that option. Updating the databases uses very little memory.
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<p> <b>OTHER SWIM FUNCTIONS</b>: Most free operating systems have these
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packages installed: On a non Debian system, <b>ar</b> from
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<em>binutils</em> is used to query Debian binary packages. These next
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packages are essential in a free operating system (Linux) -
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<em>textutils</em>, <em>fileutils</em>, <em>grep</em>, <em>tar</em>,
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<em>gzip</em>, and <em>mount</em>.
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