On 2/10/06, Anne Ramey <anner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm trying to install perl 5.6.1 on FC3 (64 bit) becuase I have a > program one of the sites uses (gd chart) that will not build on any > newer perl. I've downloaded the rpm, but I get this: > rpm -ivh perl-5.6.1-36.1.73.i386.rpm > warning: perl-5.6.1-36.1.73.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID > db42a60e > error: Failed dependencies: > perl-CPAN is needed by perl-5.6.1-36.1.73.i386 > perl-CGI is needed by perl-5.6.1-36.1.73.i386 > perl-DB_File is needed by perl-5.6.1-36.1.73.i386 > perl-NDBM_File is needed by perl-5.6.1-36.1.73.i386 [ snip ] > I have cpan, etc installed for the current versions of perl. I'm unsure > how I can get the old versions without mucking up my 5.8.5 install. > Pointers? Does anyone else have gd-chart running on FC3? Yeah. Perl is pretty heavily tied in to FC, downgrading is always going to be a pain. Your best bet would be to contact the developers of gd-chart and ask them to fix the problems that prevent it from running on a modern Perl. Alternatively, you could download the 5.6.1 Perl source (from CPAN) and build it yourself and call the binary perl561 or something like that. Dave...
