Installation
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Requirements
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You need Python >= 1.5.2 from http://www.python.org/

Optionally packages
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Distutils >= 0.9 from http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/
OpenSSL from http://www.openssl.org/
You will need Perl for Win32 (available from
http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl) if you want to install OpenSSL
on Windows!


Install without Distutils
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Execute "python install.py" to install LinkChecker in the distribution
directory.
To use HTTPS, compile the Pyhton module ssl.c, for example with
"gcc -c -I/usr/include/openssl -I/usr/include/python1.5 -g -O2 -fPIC \
ssl.c -o ssl.o"
Put the distribution directory in your path to execute the linkchecker
script from everywhere.

Install with Distutils
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The Distutils package has a lot of install options to tweak and ease
your installation. Type "python setup.py --help" for options.
To install LinkChecker run "python setup.py install".
Debian users can build the .deb package with "debian/rules binary".


Running the link checker
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Type "linkchecker" followed by your URLs you want to check.
Type "linkchecker -h" for help.


(Fast)CGI web interface
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The *cgi files are three CGI script which you can use to run LinkChecker
with a nice graphical web interface.
You can use and adjust the example HTML files in the lconline directory
to run the script.