INSTALL

lpOD Project -- Languages & Platforms OpenDocument
Perl distribution


System requirements:
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- Perl 5.10.1 or later
- Archive::Zip 1.30 or later
- XML::Twig 3.34 or later
- IO::File 1.14 or later
- File::Basename
- File::Type
- File::Slurp
- File::Temp 0.12 or later
- Time::Local 1.07 or later
- Image::Size
- LWP::Simple
- experimental

Usage
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The Perl programs using lpOD must include the single statement below in order
to load the whole library:

  use ODF::lpOD;


Installation instructions (CPAN package)
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Installation procedure:

1) Uncompress the distribution archive (tar.gz);

2) Move in the directory created by the decompression ('ODF-lpOD-nnn', where
nnn is the version number);

3) Execute "perl Makefile.PL";

4) Execute "make test" (optional but recommended);

5) If nothing looks wrong, execute "make install" as system administrator from
the same directory.

The installation may be checked later using the "lpod_test" utility, that is
provided with the distribution. Without argument, this script just displays
the ODF::lpOD version, build date and installation path. If an arbitrary file
path/name is given as an argument, it generates a new test document (.odt)
that may be checked using any ODF-compatible text processor.