Afick tool is packaged in several format :

for windows users :
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afick-setup*.exe : (recommanded) a clean installer program (with a clean uninstall)
 will install afick under "program files" directory
	full mode : install afick code and html documentation
	compact mode : only install afick code
afick-*.zip : just a zipped directory (for old windows)

for linux users (packages)
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afick*.rpm : for redhat/fedora/mandrake/mandriva/mageia/suse/... distributions, run
  rpm -Uvh afick*.rpm
afick*.deb : for debian/mint/ubuntu/... distributions, run
  dpkg -i afick*.deb

for unix users
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afick.tgz : for general unix users, run :
  tar xvfz afick*.tgz
  cd  afick*
  perl Makefile.pl
  make install

if you want to install the tk interface
  make install-gui

it will install afick with the following tree
/opt/afick/
├── bin
├── database
│   └── archive
├── etc
├── lib
│   └── Afick
├── log
└── man
    ├── man1
    └── man5

you will then use afick with command such :
/opt/afick/bin/afick -c /opt/afick/etc/afick.conf -u

you have to install manually your own cron, by adapting the given file afick_cron

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you can also install afick as a system application, by running :
  tar xvfz afick*.tgz
  cd  afick*
  perl Makefile.pl Makefile_sys.in
  make install

afick will be installed with the following tree
/
├── usr
│   ├── bin
│   ├── lib
│   │    └── afick
│   └── man
│       ├── man1
│       └── man5
├── var
│   ├── lib
│   │    └── afick
│   └── log
│        └── afick
└── etc
     ├── cron.daily
     └── logrotate.d

you will then use afick with command such :
afick -u

a daily cron job is installed in /etc/cron.daily

general advice
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allways save your configuration file before upgrading afick software : some package 
may override it with default config without warning !

---------------- uninstall --------------------------

windows
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if install from afick-setup*.exe, uninstall it from  the window's configuration pannel

linux
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rpm -e afick
dpkg -r --purge afick

unix
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make uninstall
