Appendix A. Obtaining Software

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Appendix A. Obtaining Software

This book discusses how to write lots of applications, but you certainly won t want to type in all the source code yourself. Instead, you should download the source distribution that contains the application scripts, support files for setting up the associated database tables, and sample data. These are known collectively as the webdb distribution (because the database used in the book is named webdb), and may be found at:

http://www.kitebird.com/mysql-perl/

To use this distribution, you need to have a certain amount of other software installed already. Some software is required before you can do anything at all, and some is necessary only for the applications written in certain parts of the book. This appendix indicates what you need and where to get it.

Many of the packages listed are Perl modules. To find out whether a given module is installed already, try to read its documentation using the perldoc command. For example, to read the documentation for the DBI or DBD::mysql modules, try these commands:

 % perldoc DBI  % perldoc DBD::mysql 

If a perldoc command produces no information about a module, the module isn t installed. (And if perldoc can t be found, you ll need to install Perl itself.)

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