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

[Joshua Frank]

> 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.

If it helps the system is RedHat 8.0 with perl 5.8 installed. Also It's
not a problem of Interchange working I can force the install and it will
work fine. The issue is I don't like forcing RPM installs it always seems
to come back and bite you.

>
> 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.
>>