Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-02 Thread Cliff Pratt
Mmm, top posting. I'd rather not do it but What I describe does not pollute the base install, and using a container seems over the top. Cheers, Cliff On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Daniel Condomitti dan...@condomitti.com wrote: Have you thought of doing this in a Linux container to

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Robinson
On 01/04/14 16:57, John R Pierce wrote: On 3/31/2014 10:50 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: Others may see it differently but personally I would install packages only from CentOS and the rest from CPAN If possible, I would install ONLY packages from Centos and EPEL and avoid CPAN entirely. if you

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread John R Pierce
On 3/31/2014 11:13 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: I used to stick to the packages only approach but came up against more issues that way. I also spent a lot of time compiling and build packages. At the end of the day, CPAN consistently built a very tidy environment the problem with CPAN is its

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Bennett Haselton
On 3/31/2014 10:42 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: On 01/04/14 16:19, Bennett Haselton wrote: On 3/31/2014 7:56 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: Can you verify to which packages thefiles belong? Try using RPM: rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Net/IP.pm On the old machine: perl-Net-IP-1.25-2.fc6

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread mark
On 04/01/14 02:13, Tom Robinson wrote: On 01/04/14 16:57, John R Pierce wrote: On 3/31/2014 10:50 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: Others may see it differently but personally I would install packages only from CentOS and the rest from CPAN If possible, I would install ONLY packages from Centos and

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:29 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 3/31/2014 11:13 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: I used to stick to the packages only approach but came up against more issues that way. I also spent a lot of time compiling and build packages. At the end of the day, CPAN

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Robinson
On 01/04/14 17:29, John R Pierce wrote: On 3/31/2014 11:13 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: I used to stick to the packages only approach but came up against more issues that way. I also spent a lot of time compiling and build packages. At the end of the day, CPAN consistently built a very tidy

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Robinson
Tom Robinson IT Manager/System Administrator MoTeC Pty Ltd 121 Merrindale Drive Croydon South 3136 Victoria Australia T: +61 3 9761 5050 F: +61 3 9761 5051 E: tom.robin...@motec.com.au On 01/04/14 19:04, Bennett Haselton wrote: On 3/31/2014 10:42 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: On 01/04/14

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Cliff Pratt
Another approach used by people who want to use CPAN a lot, is to download and install Perl from source to say /usr/local, and point CPAN at that. That way you get the benefits of the latest Perl and CPAN without it fighting with yum/rpm. Your hashbang line in each Perl script that uses the

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Daniel Condomitti
Have you thought of doing this in a Linux container to avoid tainting the base install? On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: Another approach used by people who want to use CPAN a lot, is to download and install Perl from source to say /usr/local, and point CPAN at that.

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Bennett Haselton
On 4/1/2014 4:10 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: Tom Robinson IT Manager/System Administrator MoTeC Pty Ltd 121 Merrindale Drive Croydon South 3136 Victoria Australia T: +61 3 9761 5050 F: +61 3 9761 5051 E: tom.robin...@motec.com.au On 01/04/14 19:04, Bennett Haselton wrote: On 3/31/2014

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Robinson
On 02/04/14 11:16, Bennett Haselton wrote: I understand (I think), but is it easy to tell me, or is there a *reliable*, *vetted* source, describing for intermediate users how to actually do this? i.e.: 1) When you say Try just core and EPEL packages to start with, are you talking about

[CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-03-31 Thread Bennett Haselton
I had to move a perl script from an old server to a new one. Both the old and new servers are running CentOS release 5.10 (Final) and perl v5.8.8. (But the problem I'm running into appears to be a package management problem and not a Perl problem which is why I'm posting it to a CentOS list.)

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-03-31 Thread Tom Robinson
Can you verify to which packages thefiles belong? Try using RPM: rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Net/IP.pm and rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Crypt/DSA/KeyChain.pm Tom Robinson IT Manager/System Administrator MoTeC Pty Ltd 121 Merrindale Drive Croydon South 3136 Victoria

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-03-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 3/31/2014 7:56 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: Can you verify to which packages thefiles belong? Try using RPM: rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Net/IP.pm and rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Crypt/DSA/KeyChain.pm for that matter, on both machines... rpm -qa |grep ^perl

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-03-31 Thread Bennett Haselton
On 3/31/2014 7:56 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: Can you verify to which packages thefiles belong? Try using RPM: rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Net/IP.pm On the old machine: perl-Net-IP-1.25-2.fc6 and rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Crypt/DSA/KeyChain.pm On the new machine:

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-03-31 Thread Bennett Haselton
On 3/31/2014 8:10 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 3/31/2014 7:56 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: Can you verify to which packages thefiles belong? Try using RPM: rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Net/IP.pm and rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Crypt/DSA/KeyChain.pm for that matter, on

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-03-31 Thread Tom Robinson
On 01/04/14 16:19, Bennett Haselton wrote: On 3/31/2014 7:56 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: Can you verify to which packages thefiles belong? Try using RPM: rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Net/IP.pm On the old machine: perl-Net-IP-1.25-2.fc6 and rpm -qf

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-03-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 3/31/2014 10:20 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote: On 3/31/2014 8:10 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 3/31/2014 7:56 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: Can you verify to which packages thefiles belong? Try using RPM: rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Net/IP.pm and rpm -qf

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-03-31 Thread Tom Robinson
On 01/04/14 16:43, John R Pierce wrote: On 3/31/2014 10:20 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote: On 3/31/2014 8:10 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 3/31/2014 7:56 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: Can you verify to which packages thefiles belong? Try using RPM: rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Net/IP.pm

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-03-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 3/31/2014 10:50 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: Others may see it differently but personally I would install packages only from CentOS and the rest from CPAN If possible, I would install ONLY packages from Centos and EPEL and avoid CPAN entirely. if you absolutely need something thats not in