[bndfc-web-tech] sandpit server

[Chris Croome]

Hi

On Thu 24-Jun-2004 at 03:42:05PM +0100, Paul Taylor wrote:
> 
> we're going to have to build a box that lives in the messenger
> office for jamie to play in.
> 
> as alan and i will probably be building this, i would appreciate
> some guidance as to what kind of specification we're looking at
> [processor, ram, hd space etc].

The one I have running here is a Celeron 500Mhz with 256Mb of RAM,
this is probably as slow as you want the machine to be...

> the box will definitely be running some linux distro [probably
> debian woody] and i am also looking at what our installation
> requirements will be [i know there's probably a url for this].

The main thing is the version of Perl -- which does woody have?

MKDoc needs Perl 5.8.x

If you install Fedora Core 2 then you can use the same RPMS as our
dev server runs:

  http://rpms.mkdoc.com/

Otherwise you can use CAPN to install the needed modules.

There are install instructions in the tar ball:

  http://download.mkdoc.com/

You want 1.6:

  http://download.mkdoc.com/mkdoc-1.6/mkdoc-1.6.8.tar.gz

Chris

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