On 11/01/2010 16:08, L B wrote: > I installed many RT systems on CentOS/RHEL and now my prefered method > is installing everything with CPAN. Managing perl dependencies RPMs is > really a mess, you don't have all of them in the same repository, and > you need some updated modules bundled with the default perl RPM > package. > > I recommend just installing a default centos/redhat (with a default > perl package, updated to the last available version with yum update), > and then install the perl dependencies with CPAN and make fixdeps. > > If I remember well, this syslog module is part of the default perl > package so even if you find a recent rpm, you'll get a dependency > problem. > > Get the tarball > uncompress it > ./configure with your options, > install the RPMs dependencies you need for this (not perl packages. > For example, httpd, mod_perl, graphviz etc...) > export PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 > make fixdeps > make testdeps > make install > > This is the approach I was going for originally, to compile from source, I don't know why I changed my mind to go with the RPM's, but I guess CPAN and SOURCE should be the way to go. Oh, and umm, if your installing a bare bones system, please remember to install gcc as well!!!
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