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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 from http://www.bigsister.ch/download/ or from the alternate download site at sourceforge.net http://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.
MSI package with binary distribution not requiring Perl to be installed, ready for installation via the Windows installer
RPMs for Linux systems (independant from any specific plattform or distribution)
Debian packages
If you are not using the binary distribution (Windows Plattforms only), a pre-installed and running Perl interpreter with Perl version >=5.6 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).