I finally have installed FC4. Now I need to install some perl modules. The question I have is, how should I install them?
I can choose from a number of methods and repositories: 1) yum as specified in fedora-release 2) apt using freshrpms 3) apt using rpmforge 4) yum using rpmforge 5) CPAN using the cpan shell 6) download and install the source tarball from CPAN Ideally, I'd like to use just one method to simplify administration and management of the packages. However, this doesn't seem likely. From what I've tried so far I've run into two major issues: 1) a package exists in one repository and not the other, or is available via one method and not the other 2) incompatible packages between the repositories An example of the first case is the perl-Text-Shellwords package. It is available via apt using rpmforge but not from freshrpms, nor via yum using the default repositories. An example of the second case is the perl-GD package. It is available via yum using the default repositories. A newer version is available via apt from rpmforg. However, the newer package is not built correctly. That is, the example from 'perldoc GD' works with the old version and not the new. Another example of the second case is when I try to upgrade the packages, I see a lot of "X conflicts with existing package Y"-type of errors. My stream of questions are: - should I stick to apt, yum, CPAN, or use some combination of methods? - should I use just one repository or a mixture, and if a mixture, which ones? Any thoughts, comments, solutions, or suggestions are gladly accepted. Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
