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Re: install problems



This technique in this link http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/78 looks like it might be the debian / ubuntu way to handle unpackaged CPAN modules.

On 23/04/07, Raymond Cheng <..hidden..> wrote:
Installed Class::Std prior installing Config::Std. Do it from command prompt
instead of from  gui such as webmin. Give it a try.

Best Regards

Raymond


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>That Config::Std dependency caused me a lot of difficulty too. I was
>installing to a clean Ubuntu Edgy vmware machine.
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>On 20/04/07, Stroller < ..hidden..> wrote:
>>
>>
>>On 19 Apr 2007, at 17:11, 3worldimports wrote:
>> > ...
>> > On another note, it would be helpful if there was an install script
>> > that would check for the appropriate cpan modules. There are three
>> > different places that tell or provide modules: the download pre-reqs,
>> > the debian.readme, and running build test. In the readme, all modules
>> > are assumed to be available through normal repositories, but that is
>> > not the case at least for ubuntu, so some of those I had to download
>> > directly from cpan.
>> >
>> > Wouldn't it be easier to just write a script that uses cpan to check
>> > and install all modules?
>>
>>I'm confused by your post because:
>>
>>    2)  Check New Dependencies
>>
>>    The Build.PL script can be used to test for unmet dependencies and
>>    run other tests.  It doesn't install anything yet, but it will tell
>>    you what you are missing.  To check for dependencies, run "perl
>>    Build.PL" from the command line.  Missing dependencies can generally
>>    be installed via a Linux distributor's package manager or by CPAN.
>>
>>    [from the UPDATE file in ledgersmb-1.2.*.tar.gz]
>>
>>I ran this and quite successfully met all the necessary dependencies,
>>although I have to admit that it was not immediately obvious from its
>>output which CPAN module met which dependency. I suspect this is the
>>nature of CPAN rather than a failing of `perl Build.PL`, however.
>>
>>My inclination would be opposed to "a script that uses cpan to check
>>and install all modules".
>>Whereabouts on the filesystem would they go?
>>How would upgrades be handled?
>>Wouldn't they interfere with the CPAN modules supplied by my distro?
>>
>>During the course of meeting L-SMB's dependencies I discovered that
>>Gentoo's package manager didn't itself provide a package to meet one
>>of the deps, but that it did offer a BRILLIANT alternative. Using the
>>package manage one installs the "app-portage/g-cpan" package, then
>>uses this to create a new ebuild (package) for the CPAN module one
>>requires. IMO all distros should have something similar.
>>
>>Stroller.
>>
>>
>>PS: it looks like the dependency I had trouble with was "Config-Std".
>>Once I had the g-cpan package installed and looked it up on CPAN it
>>became amazingly easy to install this dep.
>>
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