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>As per the [<SPAN
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>&#13; A mailing list archive is good, because it lets thoughtful people with Frequently Asked Questions search for an immediate answer, and avoids bothering the people who have answers. Unfortunately, the answers in a mailing list
archive become stale over time, are disorganized, and are hard to sift from the conversational noise of the mailing list.
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>&#13; A Frequently Asked Questions, list <SPAN
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> is even better, because the people with questions can be a little lazier and still find their answer right away. Unfortunately, maintaining a <SPAN
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effort; if people with the answers become lazy, the <SPAN
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>&#13; The Faq-O-Matic is a <SPAN
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keeping it up-to-date. A permission system also makes it useful as a help-desk application, bug-tracking database, or documentation system.
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>&#13; These installation instructions assume
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>&#13; Commands are Unix-compatible.
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>&#13; The source path is <TT
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>&#13; Installations were tested on Red Hat Linux 6.1 and 6.2.
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>&#13; All steps in the installation will happen in super-user account <TT
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>&#13; FAQ-O-Matic version number is 2.709
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>&#13; These are the Package(s) required:
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>&#13; FAQ-O-Matic Homepage: <A
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>&#13; The most recent version of the FAQ-O-Matic is always available at: <A
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>ftp://ftp.cs.dartmouth.edu/pub/jonh.</A
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>&#13; You must be sure to download: FAQ-OMatic-2.709.tar.gz
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>&#13; There are some prerequisites which you need to keep in mind before can install FAQ-O-Matic,
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>&#13; Apache web server should be already installed on your system in order to be able to use FAQ-O-Matic software.
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>&#13; Revision Control System, <SPAN
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>&#13; To verify that the <SPAN
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>&#13; To install the <B
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[root@deep ] /# <B
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>cd</B
> /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/
[root@deep ]/RPMS# <B
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>&#13; [root@deep ]/RPMS# <B
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For more information on the required software, see the related chapters in this book.
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