Re: rpm installation failure

[Dave Ogren <ogren@atcnet.net>]

mikeh@minivend.com wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from mikeh@minivend.com     ******
>
> Quoting Larry Leszczynski (larryl@furph.com):
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Larry Leszczynski <larryl@furph.com>     ******
> >
> > Hi Dave and Mike -
> >
> > > > Apparently you didn't install Bundle::MiniVend, and it looks like
> > > > our RPM doesn't include that. I have attached the Entities.pm file,
> > > > so do:
> > > >
> > > >         mkdir /usr/lib/minivend/lib/HTML
> > > >         cp Entities.pm  /usr/lib/minivend/lib/HTML
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Mike Heins
> > >
> > > I did install the perl-Bundle-Minivend-0.01-1 from rufus.w3.org before --
> > > must be absent from the package.
> >
> > Does Bundle::MiniVend include the libwww CPAN module?  I got burned
> > recently on a fresh install of libwww, because they recently (v5.30)
> > unbundled some modules from libwww which were previously included:
> >
> >  o  Unbundled the following modules:
> >        * HTML-Parser  (HTML::Parser, HTML::Entites, HTML::LinkExtor,...)
> >        * HTML-Tree    (HTML::Element, HTML::TreeBuilder,...)
> >        * Font-AFM     (Font::AFM, Font::Metrics::*)
> >        * File-CounterFile
> >
>
> It does include it, but it MV has its own version of File::CounterFile
> and HTML::Entities if those are not on the system. If you have selected
> the "Retrieve dependencies" option for CPAN, then it should all be
> transparent. This will be transparent if you follow the suggestion
> and update the CPAN module itself.
>
> --
> Mike Heins

Thanks Mike and Larry,

What I'm attempting is managing the OS with rpms exclusively rather than a mixture with
tarballs -- most packages are available in both forms and consistency is the goal here.

If there is a list of module dependencies, I'd certainly appreciate it...

Thanks,
Dave