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You don't necessarily have to install anything from source. If things have been updated, compiled binaries are almost always available. If there have been no updates...
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Ah. Problem is they're not my boxes. I'm simply supporting the boxes, from my home, for some other people. And at the same time, trying to get a handle on linux for my own personal benefit.
Ah yes, it is better to try to get it from your own distribution site for precisely that reason. Everyone has their own ideas of where to install...
expect.
Yeah thanks, but I was hoping for some good tutorial type books so that I can go learn, then only come back and bother you good people when I get well and truly stuck! :-)
and while it appeared to install, when I do a perl -v it tells me 5.8.0!
Problem 2,3,4 : I need to upgrade the apache installation, the MySQL, some CPAN modules - managed to sort of do the MySQL, but not the others.
My real problem is my lack of basic knowledge about linux, hence my request for a tutorial type manual rather than a reference type manual, of which I can find many.
in to nfs; it's to
My main home machine is actually RISC OS, though I do have a 'doze laptop which I rarely switch on. From RISC OS I aught to be able to use either !samba or !Sunfish (NFS). !Samba works, usually, but I cannot get the NFS side set up on the linux boxes.
No. I meant VME.
do insane.
Dunno about VMS, but VME is like a relaxing holiday after anything else.
All the best,
Dave
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