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

If you are using the last 5.10 perl release, the Tk module is not included by default. If you want to use the graphical interface, you will have to install the Tk module with the ppm command.

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

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