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[Charles Curley]

On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 12:46:46AM +1030, Tim wrote:
> Tim:

> > 
> > Anyway, the fix for this one is simple, install perl-Archive-Tar.
> 
> Hmm, well that fixes the installation on FC5.  FC6 has a different
> error:
> 
> Can't locate LWP/UserAgent.pm in @INC (@INC
> contains: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/s ite_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux -thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/pe rl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/ lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_per l/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thr ead-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl 5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7 /us r/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/ve ndor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8) at /usr/bin/sa-update line 92.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/sa-update line 92.
> 
> How do you work out what package it wants to fulfill its needs?

It says, "Can't locate LWP/UserAgent.pm in @INC..." So it's looking
for a perl module called "LWP::UserAgent" somewhere in the list of
directories that constitute the array @INC (short for "include"). A
quick look at line 92 of sa-update shows that it says:

eval { use LWP::UserAgent; };

And the comment just above indicates that the reason the author used
the eval trick was to bypass RPM dependency checking.

Next question: do you really need it? I don't have it installed, and
sa-update runs and gets updates without complaining. But I don't see
how sa-update can get updates without it.

Another question is, how do you get it? A bit of checking with yum
indicates that it isn't available from core, extras or livna. So you
need cpan2rpm so you can pull it in from cpan.org and RPM-ize it for
installation.

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