Faq-O-Matic Faq-O-Matic: Prerequisites

	Faq-O-Matic Faq-O-Matic : Administrators' Guide : Install : Prerequisites
	FAQ-O-Matic runs on Unix-like boxes. Glenn Mabbutt has described how to get it working under Windows; see How To Run FOM on Windows.
	You need Perl 5.004 or newer. Get it at http://www.perl.com/. In general, if you have a problem, you should try to use the newest pieces you can acquire. Boyd Lynn Gerber (gerberbATzenezDOTcom) reports that upgrading to 5.005_03 fixed some bugs he was experiencing that were unique to his platform (SCO Unix).
	You also need RCS. My 'rcs -V' says version 5.7, but I don't know what's necessary. RCS is a GNU program, available from (for example) ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/GNU.
	You will need CGI.pm version 2.49 or newer. You can check your current CGI.pm version number with: perl -e 'use CGI; print $CGI::VERSION."\n";' If you don't have it, get it from http://www.perl.com/. If you have it but can't install it in the system directory because you aren't root, peek ahead to How do I install if I'm not root?. Clemens Koller reports that FOM is currently incompatible with the newest major revision of CGI.pm (3.x), but that 2.752 works fine with FOM. I'd happily accept a patch that makes FOM work with both CGI.pm 2.x and 3.x.
	A better URL for locating CGI.pm is: http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/
	You will need Digest::MD5 for the install procedure. Get it from CPAN.
	FYI, you can check the version of Perl you're running with the command: perl -v
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