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

[BlueHat]

Am Fre, den 02.04.2004 schrieb Dave Cross um 16:30:
> 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...
> 
> -- 
>   New .sigs
>   Running in please parse

I've used rpm's I found on the web and installed them, sorry to tell you
this.

Thanks a lot your answer helps to understand whats happend.

Andreas