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From: "Ramasubramanian,Suresh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Shanker R Swaminathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "LIH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Indra"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 9:17 AM
Subject: [LIH] Re: Perl Module Problem
> Not having RH6.2 installed, I can't say for sure, but is CPAN.pm installed
> properly in the first place? Try reinstalling it first :)
Come on!:-)
>
> >Initially, vanilla Perl w/o modules calls lynx -source <url> to get the
> >list of mirrors etc.etc. and then , after getting/installing the libnet
>
> ?!? never tried it this way :)
Don't try to - painful !:-) Let perl's CPAN do it.
RedHat seems to have something with thwir x.2 series. 5.2 was the most
stable one for a long time and 6.2 is otherwise holding up to the .2 legend!
The problem is due to a conflict with Lynx and the way url's are passed -
w/o protocol headers.
> >carefully for missing dependancies, which CAPN normally takes care of.
> >Once LWP or libnet was installed, everything was back to normal.
>
> Post this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it's a pretty good (and very low
> traffic - hardly 15 mails a day) PERL list, with some good gurus around
> (basically set up as a list to help people with Matt Wright's scripts, now
> a general PERL list). Or if you are adventurous, comp.lang.misc.perl will
> do just as well :)
>
Will have to try there- it seems! Bugzilla is infested with messages some
three months old!
Shanker
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