Thanks, John, you saved me from having to reply to that one. :)
Anyway, in this case, I think Mandrake just screwed up on the package.
Another person has told me that perl-5.xxxx.rpm installs Perl 5 but the
executable is just /usr/bin/perl. rpm looks in it's own database for file
dependencies and so it didn't find /usr/bin/perl5. This makes sense to me
and I agree.
The solution in this case was just to install it with the --nodeps flag. I
hate doing this, as I actually BELIEVE a package when it says it needs a
dependency. However, in this case, things seem to be working fine, so I'm not
too unhappy about it.
Anyway, thanks to everyone for the help -- things are working fine so far. So
anyone know how I can do a system re-install and the least re-configuration
possible? :)
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
>> perl comes with your Mandrake distribution, just load the rpm. If not
>> get an rpm from CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archives Network) at
>> http://www.perl.com/CPAN
>>
>Ken...reread the part below...he *already* has perl....
>
>> > This installation is only a week or two old -- why would it
>> > be asking for
>> > something that isn't on my system? Any ideas where I can
>> > find this package? I
>> > have perl-5.00503-3mdk already on the system (the perl that
>> > came with Mandrake
>> > 6.0).
>
>This *is* interesting.... I ran into the same problem, but
>since I'm behind a firewall, I didn't bother updating it.
>Perhaps he needs to do an rpm -i or rpm -f???
> John
