[SATLUG] Perl(GD) RPM?

[Thomas Cameron]

Which till totally screw you on a RHEL 3 (or any other RPM based) box.  In 
my experience, this will upgrade your entire Perl installation OUTSIDE of 
the packaging system.  Say good bye to support from Red Hat for any 
Perl-related issue at that point.  Their response to a trouble report will 
be "revert back to the old version of the affected packages" and you'll have 
to say "I can't - I installed via CPAN, not RPMs."  To which they will say 
"I don't have a solution, but I certainly admire your problem!"

Seriously, make RPMs out of the Perl modules and you will be a lot happier.

TC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Mann" <jeremymann at gmail.com>
To: "The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List" <satlug at satlug.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: [SATLUG] Perl(GD) RPM?


> GD will require additional modules, so you may want to get them as
> well by using CPAN.
>
> perl -MCPAN -e shell
>
> at the cpan> prompt issue:
>
> install gd
>
>
>
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 23:00:45 -0500, Thomas Cameron
> <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:
>> ----- 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
>>
>>
>>
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> Jeremy
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