$Id: INSTALL,v 1.3 2003/10/09 10:53:29 carlo Exp $

Preamble

NoSQL takes the classical UNIX toolkit approach, that leverages
productivity, effectiveness and reliability by maximizing the reuse
of existing code. As such, the package relies upon several external
commands and utilities, most of which should be available in any
mainstream GNU/Linux distributions, as well as in the form of add-ons on
many commercial UNIX systems.

NoSQL is tailored to the Debian GNU/Linux O.S. but it should work with
most other Linux and UNIX systems, provided that the following other
programs are available:

* Perl 5

* Mike Brennan's mawk(1), version >= 1.3.3

* The lockfile(1) utility, normally distributed with procmail(1)

* The mktemp(1) utility

* GNU textutils (grep, sort, join, etc.).

Note: the indicated progam versions are those that have been used
during the tests. This does not mean that NoSQL necessarily won't work
with different/earlier versions of those programs, although that may
occasionally be the case.

For your convenience, the source code and man page for mktemp(1)
is also available in the extra/ directory of the NoSQL source tree,
although I do not support them.

Installation :

WARNING: if you are upgrading from an older NoSQL version make sure you
read also the NEWS file before continuing !!!

Un-tar the package in a work directory, then 'cd' into the latter
and run:

     ./install-sh 

The default installation path is /usr/local/nosql/, and you must usually
be 'root' to write to it. If you want to install the package into a
different place, say '/my/target/dir/', simply modify the above command
as follows:

     PREFIX=/my/target/dir/ ./install-sh

Please report any installation problems to noseequel@scriptaworks.com

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