-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On June 17, 2003 2:15 pm, Trevor Lauder wrote: > AFAIK rpm is just querying the rpm database and looking for that package. > It won't be able to tell if you had installed it using cpan, it wants a > rpm package.
That's what I figured. Thanks for confirming my suspicions. :-) Looks like cpan2rpm is my friend then. > At least that was how Red Hat did things in 7.x, I barely > used 8.0 so I'm not sure if that changed. I doubt it though. You can try > 'rpm --showall | grep -i perl' to see what packages Red Hat has on it's > official distribution that have the word perl in it and see if they have > that specific package. Actually, at least on RH 8, there is no --showall option. 'rpm -qa' works though. :-) Thanks again. Ian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+73yOSiY+RXI7JS4RAhUtAJ9kL4anZjyv+dGNhKvz+Ip/ZPmgFwCeO/su jwG+QXlwOY9OESWW8knnL5k= =B/Sh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
