[ic] Re: Newbie Installation Question

interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Sun Dec 16 21:33:00 2001


On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 tburt@timburt.com wrote:

Add one more to this list.....

Storable-1.0.14.tar.gz

> 
> A bit of warning regarding the CPAN install routines....
> 
> I once did as suggested below, and allowed CPAN to auto install some 
> needed modules.  It promptly decided that I was running an outdated 
> version of perl (I was up to date w/rt RH rpms), and proceeded to upgrade 
> my perl to the latest version, without giving me a chance to say no.  The 
> upgrade continued for quite some time, (I was on a T1) and when it was 
> done, several of my previously running perl scripts were now broken.  It 
> took several more hours to remove all of the perl from my machine and 
> reinstall from the RH rpms.  I had several clients on the machine who were 
> inconvenienced by this rogue action.
> 
> I would recommend hunting down the needed CPAN modules one by one, and 
> installing them by hand.  It took me almost an hour to get the CPAN 
> modules I needed for IC, but it was better than the many hours spent the 
> last time.
> 
> Here are the modules (and dependent modules) I needed to install:
> 
> Funny, it would seem to be fairly simple and very helpful if the 
> installation documentation for IC would provide this list....
> 
> Bundle-libnet-1.00.tar.gz
> MIME-Base64-2.12.tar.gz
> URI-1.17.tar.gz
> HTML-Parser-3.25.tar.gz
> SQL-Statement-0.1021.tar.gz  
> libnet-1.0901.tar.gz
> HTML-Tagset-3.03.tar.gz
> Safe-Hole-0.08.tar.gz        
> libwww-perl-5.62.tar.gz
> 
> Michelle Wilant wrote:
> 
> > Yea!  Nice to hear a Miva person move to Interchange.  Now if you 
> > could just convince some of my co-workers to do that.... :)
> >
> > Dan Browning wrote:
> >
> >>>Hello all,
> >>>
> >>>     Just considering a move from Miva Merchant to
> >>>Interchange and am getting ready to do an rpm installation
> >>>of Interchange.  I have downloaded all the rpms with the
> >>>exception of the CPAN modules.  How do I know which ones I
> >>>need or do I need all of them?
> >>>
> >>>I apologize in advance for the newbie question and hope to
> >>>learn a lot very quickly :)
> >>>
> >>>Thanks
> >>>
> >>>Bob
> >>>
> >>
> >>Even if you do install the RPM modules (some of which are out of date
> >>for Red Hat 7.2), I recommend running 
> >>
> >>perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::Interchange'
> >>
> >>Or perhaps this first to get a faster mirror:
> >>
> >>perl -MCPAN -e 'shell' 
> >>o conf urllist push ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/pub/CPAN/
> >>
> >>HTH,
> >>
> >>Dan Browning
> >>Kavod Technologies
> >>
> >>
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Timothy Burt
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