Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 13:20 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
The problem is avoided by installing perl modules from rpms.
Is there a guide on doing this? (My searches haven't found an answer,
yet.) For instance, I tried to install the HTML validator from WDG.
They have a FC4 RPM for it [1], so I tried that.
It also wants some perl modules:
perl-Unicode-Map8
perl-Unicode-String
perl(I18N::Charset)
I found that out when trying an RPM install of the validator. I thought
I'd try:
yum localinstall /path/to/wdg-html-validator-1.6.2-1.i386.rpm
seeing as the docs say that YUM will try and retrieve dependencies from
repos if it can. But it fails because the last PERL module isn't
available.
In an effort to avoid lots of trouble, I've used YUM to install the
first two from RPMs:
yum install perl-Unicode-Map8 perl-Unicode-String
Leaving me with the problem of getting perl(I18N::Charset) some other
way before I can install the main program.
1:<http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/packages/wdg-html-validator-1.6.2-1.i386.rpm>,
2:<http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/extras/4/i386/>
RPM is all well and good until you strike this issue. Even if I do
install the module in another way, the next RPM that insists on its
presence is probably going to fail. Is there a simple way to inform RPM
that it has been installed?
You need to make an RPM of the I18N::Charset distribution. One way of
doing this is by using "cpanspec", which is on its way into Fedora Extras:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168838
Do bear in mind though that autogenerated packages generated by the
likes of cpanspec and checkinstall are unlikely to be of the same
quality as a hand-crafted package made by an experienced packager.
Another point regarding I18N::Charset specifically is that it has a
build dependency on IO::Capture::ErrorMessages, which is a deprecated
module no longer included in the current IO-Capture distribution.
Paul.
