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Excuse my Ignorance. What to download?
Hi,

I am running Links 2.0 and we are adding about 200-250 links per day. I emailed Alex today with some dumb questions, not thinking how busy he must be.

I am considering upgrading to the Links Sql version.

On the links sql version web page it says go to Cspan etc., to get the files necessary, LWP, Lwp::ParallelUserAgent and MySql.

I have MySql and ParallelUserAgent. Where or which is LWP?

Is it Libwww or LWP-attic or what?

If it's Libwww, do I also have to download
all these also?
URI
MIME-Base64
HTML-Parser
libnet
Digest::MD5

Just making sure I have what I need to install it.

If so, do they need to be installed in a particular sequence?

1st, 2nd etc.

Thanks,

Dave
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Hi Dave,

You'll want to install (or check that they are installed) the DBI and DBD::mysql modules. Both can be found here:

http://www.perl.com/...dules/by-module/DBD/

I don't recommend LWP anymore (I'll need to update the page), as the next version of Links SQL due out in the next couple of days will use a much better link checker that doesn't depend on LWP or LWP::Parallel User Agent.

So all you need is Perl 5.004_04 or better and the DBI and DBD::mysql modules.

Cheers,

Alex
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Alex,

Hmmmm, DBI was easy to find, but there are a ton of DBD type modules there.

I'm running FreeBSD Unix ver 3.1 on an i386.

Which DBD::MySql mod is it?

Thanks,

Dave
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Thanks again,

I found the DBD:MySql module finally.
Actually it's called Msql-Mysql-modules.

Thanks,

Dave