[SATLUG] Perl(GD) RPM?

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Wallace" <mikeaw at gmail.com>
To: "SATLUG" <satlug at satlug.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 10:30 PM
Subject: [SATLUG] Perl(GD) RPM?


> I'm tried to install an RPM on a new RHEL 3 system and got the following 
> error.
>
> error: Failed dependencies:
>        perl(GD) is needed by
>        perl(GD::Graph) is needed by
>        perl(GD::Graph::Data) is needed by
>        perl(GD::Graph::lines) is needed by
>        perl(GD::Graph::linespoints) is needed by
>        perl(Statistics::Descriptive) is needed by
>
> I can't seem to find any RPMs which include this mysterious
> "perl(GD)."  I say mysterious because I've never seen perl(GD) as a
> dependency before.  Maybe I just don't do enough work in perl?
> Anyway, I have hunted for an RPM that would satisfy this perl(GD)
> dependency, but just can't find one.  So, where on the wide internet
> is that RPM hiding?
>
> If I were to go to CPAN and find the GD module and install it, would
> rpm recognize that it was installed or would it still show the
> dependency?  (That is, do I need to find and install an actual RPM to
> resolve the dependency?)

You want to go to search.cpan.org and search for each of these Perl modules. 
Download them as .tar.gz files then run the totally kick-ass cpan2rpm 
utility from http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/ against them for RPMs.

Thomas