Step 1: Install Glimpse
You should install Glimpse first. You may need to compile a copy for your system, or you may find
a precompiled binary that works fine. Sometimes the binaries are a version or two behind, and in this case
your best bet is to "roll your own" - and then submit it back to us so we can post it, please!
Other users will greatly appreciate it!
Installing glimpse from binaries is a matter of simply unpacking the distribution and copying the files in the /bin subdirectory somewhere in your path.
If you compile it yourself, it is the same - the compiled binaries will be generated in the /bin subdirectory of wherever you unpacked the distribution into. You need to copy these manually somewhere into your path, like /usr/local/bin.
Detailed instructions are in the README.install file that comes with the distribution.
Step 2: Install Webglimpse
Once you have glimpse installed on your system, you can install Webglimpse.
Download the distribution, unpack it, and run the wginstall program. It will prompt you for the location of
the various glimpse binaries and other information about your system, write necessary config files, and copy
processed versions of the webglimpse scripts into an install directory you specify. So while you copy Glimpse binaries by hand,
Webglimpse has its own installation script that does the copying for you.
See also detailed instructions for installing Webglimpse.
Step 3: Configure an archive
At the end of the Webglimpse installation you will be prompted to
configure an archive, that is, specify a directory or starting URL to index.
You can do this now, or anytime later by running the program confarc.
Webglimpse can gather pages by traversing links, or spidering the web. You can tell it where to start from and how deep to go. Or, you can just index a local directory on your own server.
See Documentation & Howtos for more info.
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