On 30/10/2004, at 7:19 AM, Stas Bekman wrote:
CN wrote:Hi!
Because "perl Makefile.PL" did not find LWP::UserAgent and
HTML::HeadParser in my Debian box, I did "apt-get install
libapache-mod-perl". Then I did "dpkg -P libapache-mod-perl" to remove
that package. Since then "perl Makefile.PL" seems to have trouble as it
complains "cat: ../apache_1.3.32/src/Makefile.config: No such file or
directory":
Unless someone on Debian can help you with the specific of those packages,
Well, I'll try...
I'd suggest that you download the source and build everything by yourself
as explained here:
...because this always seems to lead to a world of pain, in the end (as the
next time you try to install a package that depends on one of the ones you've
built yourself, you have to resort to twisting the packaging system's arm).
First suggestion: use aptitude, not apt-get. aptitude shows you the packages
that are recommended by the package you are installing, as well as those
upon which it absolutely depends.
Second suggestion: CPAN packages in debian are named consistently. If you
have a CPAN package called Foo::Bar, the debian package of it will be called
libfoo-bar-perl. There are a few confusing ones, such as LWP. Try
libwww-perl.
Third suggestion: Even if you want to rebuild a package which is in Debian,
start off with the Debian package sources ("apt-get source foo"). That way,
you end up with a packaged version of the thing, and any idiosyncracies
needed to build it on Debian.
Cheers,
Nick
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