href="../download.xml">Download</a>^</span><br></div><hr><h1><a name="Gale Installation Instructions"></a>Gale Installation Instructions</h1><p>For the most part, installing Gale is a matter of building the binaries
and getting them in the right places. The exception is the authentication
system, which requires a certain amount of finicky setup -- including setuid
binaries -- to do its job correctly and securely.</p><p><b>First</b>, <a href="../download.xml">download the Gale
source code</a> and unpack it. It should create a directory named
"gale-(version)", where (version) is the version number you downloaded.
(We'll refer to this directory as "gale".)</p><hr><h1><a name="Fetching Required Libraries"></a>Fetching Required Libraries</h1><p><b>Second</b>, make sure you have some libraries Gale depends