>From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list- >bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Cary Hart >Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 10:20 AM >To: For users of Fedora Core releases >Subject: Re: Installing perl modules on FC4 x86_64 > >On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 09:35 -0700, Jay Curtis wrote: >> >> I am having a problem with understanding what is going wrong with >> installing perl modules and then trying to install rpm packages that >> rely on that module. When I download a perl module from CPAN and >> install it using the standard "perl Makefile.pl; make; make test; make >> install", the module makes and installs with no errors. When I then >> try to install an rpm package, i.e. perl.MLDBM-2.01.1.2.fc4.rf.noarch >> from dries repository, the rpm command fails with: > >> Error: Failed Dependencies: > >RPM dependencies are other RPMs. Therefore, they cannot be resolved with >CPAN source installs. It is possible to override this with --nodeps but >that is usually NOT a good idea. > >The problem is avoided by installing perl modules from rpms. The problem with trying to install perl modules from RPM's is that a lot of the perl modules are not available as RPM's. Is there an easy way to create an RPM from the downloaded perl modules to make the RPM subsystem happy? Any pointers to an FAQ or HOWTO would be really appreciated. Thanks for the replies and the pointers. --Jay Curtis
