Perl packages

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 26 Jan 2006 23:12, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > yum install \
> > >   'perl(Date::Format)' 'perl(Date::Parse)' 'perl(HTML::Template)'
> >
> > I tried that, but got a 'no match' argument.  Are those
> > single-quotes or something else?
>
> They're single quotes. Looks like something's up with your yum
> configuration.
>
> perl(Date::Format) & perl(Date::Parse) are provided by the
> perl-TimeDate package, which is part of Fedora Core ("base" repo).
>
> perl(HTML::Template) is provided by the perl-HTML-Template package in
> Fedora Extras ("extras" repo).
>
> Both "base" and "extras" are enabled by default in FC4 so the above
> yum command should have worked "out of the box".
>
I'm not sure what went wrong, then.  However, I used yumex in 
conjunction with your info above, and now have them installed.  When 
yumex has finished rebuilding I'll try popfile initialisation again.

Thanks to both of you for your answers.

Anne