[ic] RedHat RPM problems with Interchange/apt-get

[Howard Lowndes]

They might be in the 5.6.0 perl directory or 5.6.1.  It depends on what 
your base Perl installation is...I think.

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Joshua Frank wrote:

> When I install Interchange I get this.
> 
> rpm -ivh interchange-4.8.7-1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         perl-Business-UPS is needed by interchange-4.8.7-1
>         perl-Digest-MD5 is needed by interchange-4.8.7-1
>         perl-MIME-Base64 is needed by interchange-4.8.7-1
>         perl-Safe-Hole is needed by interchange-4.8.7-1
>         perl-SQL-Statement is needed by interchange-4.8.7-1
>         perl-Storable is needed by interchange-4.8.7-1
>         perl-libnet is needed by interchange-4.8.7-1
> 
> First I went to cpan.org and download the missing modules and made them,
> but still got the same error.
> OK so I search through the mail archive and somebody suggests to try and
> download the perl rpm modules and install them using --justdb to let the
> rpm database know that I have them. Well this lets Interchange install
> without any problems until I try to update my system using apt-get update;
> apt-get upgrade.
> Now when I want to use apt-get to upgrade I need to uninstall Interchange
> then run apt-get then reinstall. I could write a script to do that but
> doing so would make me sad :(.
> Does anyone have a better solution? I would love to see interchange end up
> on  a sources list for apt-get/rpm.
> 
> 
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