Install Directions

You must have Perl 5.002 or Perl 5.003.

Install instructions for GetWeb 1.11 (1.1 release):

First install libwww-perl with the following steps:
1. Install IO-1.12 or later
2. Install libnet-1.01 or later
3. Install libwww-perl-5.04 or later. Ignore any MD5 warnings.

I have tested with both libwww-perl-5.04 and 5.07. Please install 5.07 or later if you are installing a new libwww-perl from scratch.

2. Install MIME-tools with the following steps:

Install MailTools-1.06 or later
Install MIME-tools-2.04 or later

I have tested with both MIME-tools-2.04 and 3.204. 3.204 encodes Latin-1 accents a little better, so use 3.204 if you are installing from scratch.

3. Untar the latest GetWeb distribution into the getweb home

directory. Chdir to that directory.

4. Run:

     # perl Makefile.PL
     # make
     # make test
     # make install

5. Create a new user account, "getweb".

6. Copy config/mailbot.config into /usr/local/getweb/config. Edit

it to reflect your local configuration. (In particular, if you have a thicker link to the internet than our 56k line, you can set quota.message higher than our 70 messages per week.)

7. For now, copy the pub/ area into /usr/local/getweb/pub. You may

want to change these files later. (In particular, you should eventually change 'getweb@usa.healthnet.org' to the address that you are running getweb as.)

8. Create a ~getweb/.forward file containing the following line:

"| getweb.pl"

(Or, if you want to batch these, you can instead have getweb run

     a daemon process like: "getweb.pl -f /var/spool/mail/getweb".  If
     you do this, change set spool.get in mailbot.config to a command
     which fetches mail on your local system.)

AutoLoader Patch

If your AutoLoader.pm file is buggy, you may get this line while running 'make test':

You must use AutoLoader.patch; see README file. Test failed!

If so, you need to patch your Autoload file because of a bug in perl5.003. One way to do this is to apply AutoLoader.patch, included in this distribution:

      # cd /usr/lib/perl5
      # ls AutoLoader.pm
      AutoLoader.pm
      # patch < /usr/home/getweb/GetWeb-x.xx/AutoLoader.patch