tazman — Tue, 05 Mar 2002 20:37:33 +0000

mairving:

Thanks for the feedback. The rpm manager's message was as succinct as I indicated "dependency failure: missing Perl Modules".

That was my problem, I had zero clue as to whether it was referring to a "Master Perl Modules" package used by redhat, or if it was referring to discrete unnamed packages.

My whole reason for wishing to use the rpm manager was simply to allow the up2date utility to track any modules and dependencies created by installing the perl packages.

I ended up using the perl -e MCPAN method (perl cpan module). I have used it before, but have never configured it. It appears that I managed to configure it correctly, as I installed the CGI-Lite package and the CGI routines were able to see it.

If anyone can give me a pointer to any good documentation on configuring this module (and preferably some real examples) I would just like to make sure that I have it set up correctly.

Thanks.

mairving — Tue, 05 Mar 2002 12:04:42 +0000

Taz, I really don't know about an update policy. I generally install the modules on a per need basis. Their are probably several thousand modules out there so you most of which aren't needed.

So getting back to the install of the CGI-lite module. What dependency problems are you having. Generally it will give some clue with your error message. You might post that here. Also have you tried installing a non-RPM module using the source code. I generally prefer doing things this way.