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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: white">Rather that tell me what I an doing wrong (apart
from attempting this) can someone point me to where I can find out what I
need to know.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: white">Scenario:</DIV>
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BACKGROUND-COLOR: white">Debian sarge installed (no probs or errors) on i386
machine.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: white">Attempting to install freeradius-1.0.4.tar.gz</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: white">will not ./configure without errors. As I
don't know what I am ment to be looking for, I can't find what I am doing
wrong.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: white">Trying to be smart, I went to the debian site and
downloaded freeradius_1.0.4-2_i386.deb from <A
href="http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/freeradius">
http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/freeradius</A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: white">I can't find documentation for this, so don't know
what to do with it now I have it.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: white">Given I am NOT familiar with linux at all, and have
ventured into this reluctently, can someone point me to some really bullet
proof documentation that doesn't assume people already have an extensive
knowledge of linux before they start.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: white">I have been working on this for 3 weeks now,
searched gallaxies far away for info, god is now refusing to take my
calls, and my wife has threatened to lock me in my room so she doesn't
have to put up with me. I have also learned some very colorful words.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: white">Someone please save me.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: white">Fred</DIV>
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