install

The project provides several packages format to work on a maximum of operating systems :

windows users

• the recommended choice is afick-{version].exe, which contain an install/uninstall program
• you can also use afick-{version].zip, if you do not rely on windows registry (old windows)

dependencies

You have to install perl. You can use :

• activeperl
• cygwin for console interface (it does not provide the Tk module, necessary for the graphical interface)

You may also have to change windows association from .pl suffix to "perl -w" command

perl 5.10 and more

If you are using the last 5.10 perl release, the Tk module (used for the gui) is not included by default.

• If you are using afick-{version].exe, the installer will download and install it.
• If you are using afick-{version].zip, anf if you want to use the graphical interface, you will have to install the Tk module with the ppm command. You will have to add the following repository : http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/

UNIX/Linux users

• afick-{version].rpm for Linux RedHat, mandrake, suse, to be installed with the rpm -Uvh package.rpm command
• afick-{version].deb for Linux Debian, to be installed with the dpkg -i package.deb command
• afick-{version].tgz for other UNIX, to be installed by :
  1. tar xvfz afick-{version}.tgz
  2. cd afick*
  3. perl Makefile.pl
  4. make

dependencies

RedHat

the following packages are needed :

• perl
• perl-Digest-MD5

the following packages are optionals :

• perl-Tk : used only by afick-gui package
• perl-Digest-SHA1 : if you want to use SHA1 checksum

mandrake

the following packages are needed :

• perl-base
• perl
• perl-Digest-MD5

the following packages are optionals :

• perl-Tk : used only by afick-gui package
• perl-Digest-SHA1 : if you want to use SHA1 checksum

Debian

Debian users may use apt to install/update afick : just add the following line in your sources.list
deb http://eric.gerbier.free.fr/download/pool ./
the following packages are needed :

• perl-base
• perl
• perl-module
• libdigest-md5-perl

the following packages are optionals :

• perl-Tk : used only by afick-gui package
• libdigest-sha1-perl : if you want to use SHA1 checksum

---

back to main page