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Installation of Cornell Spider for UNIX

  • To install Spider from source, install the required development packages using apt-get, yum, or any other tool that will resolve any dependencies for you:
Debian Etch/Ubuntu/etc
- build-essential
- libssl-dev
- libmagic-dev
- libzzip-dev
- libbz2-dev
- libz-dev
- libexpat-dev
- libpcre3-dev
Centos 5/RHEL5/maybe SuSE/Fedora/Slackware
- gcc
- make
- expat-devel
- openssl-devel
- bzip2-devel
- pcre-devel
- zziplib-devel from the Dag Wieers Repository, or rpm - Uhv
  • To install the precompiled version of Spider for all distributions, other then Ubuntu or Debian, you can download to you computer by clicking here.  See the full dependency list below if you have problems with installation.

     -  expat
     -  bzip2
     -  openssl
     -  pcre
     -  file
     -  zlib
     -  libzip

  • For Ubuntu or Debian:
    • Download Spider to your computer by clicking here.
    • Type gunzip spider-engine-1.1.1.tar.gz
    • Type tar xf spider-engine-1.1.1.tar
    • Read the README file, less README, for additional instructions.
    • Type ./configure (./configure --help for more info)
    • Type make.
    • Spider will run from the build directory without installing, but if you would like to install Spider on your system, type make install ~

Step 5 - Delete Temporary Files