This chapter provides you with a list of items that are required to make your installation of the Metadot Portal a successful one. The following topics are included in this section:
For the latest information, please refer to the README.txt file on the distribution media.
The following software must be installed and running before you can install the Metadot Portal:
If you plan to update your version of Perl, we recommend you do so before installing any other software. Otherwise, your Portal may not perform as expected.
If you are installing the Apache server, you must install mod-perl 1.25 or higher as a DSO. Mod-perl can be downloaded from http://perl.apache.org.
In addition, the following Perl modules must be installed for your latest version of Perl:
libnet
libwww-perl
URI
Digest-MD5
ApacheDBI
MIME-Base64
Data-Dumper
Data-ShowTable
Storable
Convert
TimeDate
DBI
XML-Parser
XML-RSS
DateManip
HTML-Parser
perl-ldapz
Msql-Mysql-modules
WARNING: Do not update your version of Perl after installing MySQL or Apache. If you want to update your version of Perl, do so before installing MySQL, Apache, the Perl modules, or the Metadot software.
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