What is the installation procedure for a Unix system?
This item provides a more detailed explanation of the above procedure for Unix systems. Before you install MailMan, make sure that you have Perl 5 installed. On most Unix systems, especially web hosting systems, Perl will already be installed. If Perl is not installed, or if Perl version 5 is not installed, consult your system administrator. • Copy the distribution to the location that you want to unpack it in, “/public_html/mailman/”, for example. • Unpack the distribution with tar. On most systems you can type “tar -zxvf (distribution).tgz” and your system will expand the file. You should now have a collection of “i_*.gif” files, “t_*.htm” files, the Mailman CGI (see section 5.2 for the filename convention), and some documentation (this document, in particular). On systems where that doesn’t work, try “gnutar zxvf (distribution).tgz”. If that doesn’t work, you will have to manually unzip the file with “gunzip” and then untar the file with “tar -xvf (distribution).tar”. If all else fa
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