The Annotate distribution contains a directory named cgi-bin. The contents of this directory should be moved to a location where the web server is going to treat them as CGI scripts, i.e. it should execute them. Make sure that the annotate file is executable and that
Maybe you have to adjust the first line of annotate
#!/usr/bin/perl
to point to your Perl binary.
I assume that you already have a working RDBMS system at hand. You have to create a table with the columns described below.
If possible, the installation script will ask you whether it should create the table automatically.