Backtalk Installation Guide

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If you are upgrading a previous Backtalk installation:

1. Backup Your Old Files:
   The install scripts will not save your old customizations. You should make a backup of your old installation. The following files are especially likely to have been customized on your site, and may be especially important to save:
    
       script/config.bt
       script/pistachio/config.bt
       script/abalone/config.bt
    
   
2. Don't run 'make install-bbs'.
   This may mess up all your existing conferences.

If you already have Picospan or Yapp installed on your system, don't do 'make install-bbs'. We will be using Picospan or Yapp's bbs directory and we don't want to reinitialize it.

To install Backtalk, run the following commands as root:

make install-binaries          make install-scripts          # if you want to make a new conference directory:          make install-bbs          # first time installs          make install-users

The "install-users" step just constructs the .htaccess files in the cgi-bin directories. It obviously doesn't really construct any kind of users database, since your system is providing that.