Games-Sudoku-General is Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011-2013 by Thomas R. Wyant, III DESCRIPTION Games::Sudoku::General is a module to solve the class of puzzle that involves allocating symbols among sets such that no set contains more than one of any symbol. Sudoku is the most common name for such puzzles, though Number Place and Wasabi have also been used. Each puzzle is considered to be made up of a number of cells, each of which is a member of one or more sets, and each of which may contain exactly one symbol. The contents of a number of cells are gven, and the problem is to deduce the contents of the rest of the cells. INSTALLATION Most Perl users will want to install using their favorite of either 'cpan' or 'cpanp'. For either of these, installing Games::Sudoku::General gets you everything. ActivePerl users will want to use ActiveState's 'ppi', and install Games-Sudoku-General. If for some reason neither of these works for you, you can download the distribution and expand it using something like tar -xzf Games-Sudoku-General-9.999.tar.gz Users of MSWin32 (and perhaps other operating systems) may need to convert the line endings in the expanded files from Unix to their native system before proceeding. Then, issue one of the following two incantations: perl Makefile.PL make make test sudo make install or perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test sudo ./Build install You should substitute the appropriate program name for 'make', eg nmake (typically) under MSWin32, or mms or mmk under VMS. See ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe for a copy of nmake for MSWin32 if you need it. Unix users may want to use 'su' rather than 'sudo' for the install. Non-unix users may need to be logged in to an administrative or otherwise privileged accout, and turn on privileges (if applicable) for the install. Of course, since it's pure Perl, you can just expand the kit and drop the .pm files into the Games/Sudoku directory (creating it if necessary) in the appropriate place in your @INC directories. OS-specific notes exist for (at least) MacOS (meaning, Mac OS 9 and lower), MSWin32, and VMS. See the relevant README files for details. LICENSING INFORMATION This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.10.0. For more details, see the full text of the licenses in the directory LICENSES. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.