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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).