INSTALL ======= You are looking at the installation instructions for EGAL. Prerequisites for the installer =============================== EGAL is written in perl. It has a cgi web interface which is written in perl as well. The installer is written to ease your job as much as possible. However there are some packages which must be manually installed in order for the installer itself to run smoothly. CPAN.pm -------- Make sure you have CPAN.pm Usually it is present. You might need to create user config file if you have never invoked cpan shell before. If that is the case do perl -MCPAN -e shell and it should ask you if you want to create a configuration file. If you have problems with CPAN configuration, please contact your sysad. Wordnet ------- Get and install Wordnet from here [ http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ ] EGAL installer ============== Once you have all these pre-requisites, installing EGAL is a piece of cake. Just make sure you have a working internet conection and then type ./install.pl PREFIX=/directory/where/you/want/egal After running for a while the installer will prompt: _________________________________________________________ Starting install for module: Lingua-LinkParser-1.09 ... Enter the path to your Link Parser distribution directory: __________________________________________________________ Enter './link-4.1a' here (without the quotes). It is important to enter it this way. Examples -------- If I want EGAL with the cgi-interface and my cgi-directory is at ~/www/cgi-bin then I would type ./install.pl PREFIX=/home/my_username/cgi-bin or maybe even ./install.pl PREFIX=/home/my_username/cgi-bin/egal if I want to keep egal separate. (Make sure you have the right permissions though). If I don't want the cgi interface then I can put prefix as any directory where I have write access. I just have to answer no when the installer asks about web interface. LICENCE ======= EGAL is a GPLed software. You are free to use and modify it as long as you stick to GPL. =============================================================================== In case of any question please contact Ajit Datar (ajitdatar at gmail dot com)