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General Prerequisites
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   Various parts of the BBDB require extra packages to be available
that are not part of the BBDB distribution.  Please note that with one
exception no extra packages (beyond those which ship with both GNU
Emacs and XEmacs) are required for the use of BBDB core
functionality.(1)  This one exception applies to XEmacs 20.5 users -
the `xemacs-base' package must be installed for the correct operation
of the core BBDB functionality.  The table below lists the requirements
of the various portions of the BBDB.  Please note that the absence of
any of the below optional packages will not affect core BBDB
functionality.

BBDB file          Package needed   GNU 19.34   GNU 20.2   XEmacs   XEmacs
                                                           >=20.4    20.5
`bbdb-ftp'         EFS or               B           B         B        P
                   Ange-FTP                                         
`bbdb-gnus'        Gnus[1]              B           B         B        P
`bbdb-mhe'         MH-E                 B           B         B        P
`bbdb-reportmail'  Reportmail                                 B      P[2]
`bbdb-sc'          Supercite            B                     B        P
`bbdb-srv'         `gnuserv' and                              B        B
                   `itimer'                                         
`bbdb-vm'          VM[4]                                      B        P
`bbdb-w3'          `browse-url'         B           B         B      P[3]

NOTES:
  1. The old GNUS mail/newsreader should still work.  Please keep in
     mind that you have a relatively recent Emacs (GNU 19.34 or later,
     XEmacs 19.15 or later), you are probably using Gnus.

  2. As of this writing, Reportmail is available as part of the
     `edit-utils' package.

  3. As of this writing, `browse-url' is available as part of the
     `mail-lib' package.

  4. The source release of VM is currently required due to the use of
     macros from the VM codebase in BBDB's VM integration.

   Please also note that the XEmacs package locations are as of this
writing.  As the XEmacs 20.5 package system is still in development, the
locations may change without warning.

   ---------- Footnotes ----------

   (1) "Core Functionality" is defined as the parts of the BBDB used to
implement basic record creation (`M-x bbdb-create') and searching (`M-x
bbdb').


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