where to install Perl-Modusles for wdg-html-validator

[Dave Cross]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:11:05PM +0200, BlueHat wrote:
> Am Fre, den 02.04.2004 schrieb Dave Cross um 13:48:
> > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:19:49PM +0200, BlueHat wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've done this (as 'root'), but it does'nt work. By the next try to
> > > install wdg it's the same, rpm requires those modules.
> > 
> > Then you can either force the rpm installation (it should work as the
> > modules _have_ been installed, or you can track down and install rpm
> > versions of the modules.

> Thanks, this works!  Could you explain why?

Not sure what you mean by "this" as I don't know which of the two
options that I suggested you used. But here's an explaination of
what has happened.

You wanted to install an rpm of some software and that rpm has some
dependencies which are given in terms of rpms.

Now the actual software doesn't care whether the Perl modules it needs
are installed as rpms or directly from CPAN. It just needs the modules
to be installed.

So if you install the modules from CPAN, the rpm database isn't updated
and if you try to install the original rpm bundle, then it will still
complain as rpm doesn't think that the modules are installed. However,
you know that the modules _have_ been installed so you can safely 
force rpm to ignore the dependencies.

But if you find rpm versions of the Perl modules and install those
instead, then the installation will be registered in the rpm database
and you won't get any warnings when installing your software.

Does that help?

Dave...

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