Webinator Download Information - Version 5.1

More Information about Webinator

Technical Support

Webinator technical support is handled by a web message board. It is HERE.

Anyone may browse and search the message board. You must signup to post messages to the board. Click on "Login to post". From there you will be able to signup. Once you are signed up you may post questions and comments. You may also subscribe to periodic email notifications of new postings.

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Visit the Thunderstone Tech Support Message Board for technical support.

Things you need to know:

• The Webinator binaries are available for the following platforms:
  

  Solaris SPARC 2.5.1	Linux 2.6l2.3 x86	DEC Alpha Unix 4
  Solaris SPARC 2.6+	Linux 2.4l2.2 x86	Compaq Tru64
  Solaris x86	Linux 2.6l2.3 x86_64	Mac OS X 10.3
  Windows 2000/XP/2003	FreeBSD 4	IBM AIX 4.3
  HP UX 10

  • The Windows version will not work on Win95/98/me/WinNT4.
  • The Linux 2.6l2.3 version is built with libc6 (aka glibc 2.3) on CentOS 4.4 (RedHat EL 4 equivalent). It requires at least kernel 2.6.9 and libc 2.3.4. It supports 64 bit files (>2 gigabytes). It runs on newer CentOS and RedHat versions, Fedora Core as well as other Linux distributions.
  • The Linux 2.4l2.2 version is built with libc6 (aka glibc 2.2) on RedHat 7.2. It requires at least kernel 2.4.9 and libc 2.2.4. It supports 64 bit files (>2 gigabytes). It runs on newer RedHat versions such as 9 and Fedora Core as well as other Linux distributions.
  • The Linux 2.6l2.3 x86_64 version is built with libc6 (aka glibc 2.3.4) on CentOS release 4.2. It requires an x86_64 kernel. It supports 64-bit files (> 2 GB) and 64-bit memory, and is compatible with RHES 4. It will not run on 32-bit x86 operating systems.
  • The Solaris SPARC 2.6 version runs on Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, and above. It supports 64 bit files (>2 gigabytes).
  • The Alpha Unix and Tru64 versions have always supported 64 bit files.
  • x86 means an Intel Pentium or compatible CPU. SPARC means the Sun CPU found in computers from Sun.
  • The HP UX 10 version also runs on HP UX 11.
  • Other platforms may become available based on demand. Send us a request if you don't see yours, maybe we'll have it soon.

• The free Webinator must have direct access to ls.thunderstone.com on port 80 to run. (This may sound like an oxymoron, but some people have internal webs behind firewalls and proxies that block outbound port 80.) The Webinator checks with Thunderstone to validate its license.

• We strongly urge you to be polite when indexing other people's Web servers. The Webinator can be abusive if mis-handled.

• You must submit a registration form for each machine that will run the software.

• If you have purchased and installed a full Texis distribution, do NOT install this package onto the same machine. You may install it on a different machine. To use Webinator with your existing Texis license download the dowalk and search scripts from the examples page, http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/site/pages/webinator5_scripts.html. You will need a Texis version 5 release of 20040518 (May 18, 2004) or newer. texis -version will display your release version and date.

• This version of Webinator creates a database that is incompatible with versions prior to 5.0.

Click here to register and download the Free Webinator