Basic Installation ================== First, you'll need OpenWBEM to be installed. Owperlprovider is known to work with versions 3.0.0, 3.0.2 and 3.1 of OpenWBEM. Second, your system's Perl should have interpreter-threads enabled. Check by running `perl -Mthreads'. If threads are not enabled, you'll see a big error message. If it just sits there waiting for input, you're ok. If you do not have threads enabled, multiple Perl providers will not work. Extract the contents of the owperlprovider tarball using `tar xzf owperlprovider.tar.gz'. To compile and install the provider interface, do the following: 1. `cd' to the directory containing owperl's source code and type `./configure' to configure the package for your system. 2. Type `make' to compile the package. 3. Type `make install' to install the provider interface library, Perl code, and documentation. Specifying the location of OpenWBEM =================================== By default, the `./configure' script will look for OpenWBEM in `/usr/local'. If you installed OpenWBEM in a different location, give `configure' the option `--with-openwbem=PATH', where PATH is the prefix used to install OpenWBEM. Also, if you had to specify additional parameters to compile OpenWBEM, such as CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/kerberos, you may need to do the same for this package.