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Chapter 1. Installation
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## Chapter 1. Installation

## Prerequisites

The first step in getting a working installation of Big Sister is to download the source package or one of the binary release packages fromhttp://bigsister.graeff.com/download/or from the alternate download site at sourceforge.nethttp://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14120. At the time this manual was written there was a choice between

- The source package

- Big Sister for Windows systems

  - zip archive containing non-compiled but otherwise ready-to-use Big Sister installation (ActivePerl interpreter needed)

  - zip archive with completely pre-compiled binary distribution, where the required Perl interpreter is basically wrapped around the perl-sources in a binary form.

- RPMs for Linux systems (independant from any specific plattform or distribution)

If you are not using the binary distribution (Windows Plattforms only), a pre-installed and running Perl interpreter is always needed to run Big Sister. For the Big Sister server, additionally a webserver is required. You can certainly choose the webserver which suits your needs best. However, a suitable extension to the webserver configuration file is only supplied for the apache webserver (httpd).

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