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Installing Foswiki: Download and unpack the Foswiki distribution

Download the Foswiki distribution from http://foswiki.org/Download

Unpack the distribution file: Change to the directory where you want to place the Foswiki directory. Execute the following:

cd /path/to/foswikiApp
gunzip -c Foswiki-VERSION.tgz |/usr/sfw/bin/gtar xf -
ln -s Foswiki-VERSION foswiki

Note GNU tar must be used, as Solaris tar will not handle some of the longer filenames contained within the Foswiki distribution. A new subdirectory called Foswiki-VERSION will be created.

Note: Foswiki does not support directory paths that contain spaces, so ensure that all of its directory paths do not contain any spaces.

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