[kw-pm] compatibility between fedora and ubuntu perl packages?

[Ralph Janke]

Are you sure that you have installed the necessary packages?

AFAIK, alien does not create automatically the right dependencies, and
dpkg does not load any dependencies when a package is installed. You would 
need to make sure that your .deb package has the correct dependencies 
included and use a package manager to install it, or you have to
manually make sure all the dependencies are met before you install
the packages.

On May 27, 2010 04:38:50 pm Daniel Allen wrote:
> Archive::Zip and IO::Compress::Zip are two different modules with different
> authors.  Both have ubuntu packages. It is possible that by default Ubuntu
> installs one and Fedora the other, but they install in different places in
> the Perl namespace; you can apt-get install libarchive-zip-perl and your
> code should find it in the perl path just fine.
> 
> -Daniel
> 
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Robert P. J. Day 
<rpjday at crashcourse.ca>wrote:
> >  i asked about this to some extent on the kwlug-disc list as it was
> > 
> > part of a bigger problem but this is specifically a perl issue.  i
> > took an rpm package and mangled it (via "alien") into a .deb package
> > and installed it on my ubuntu 10.04 system.  wasn't too hard as it was
> > a noarch package consisting mostly of perl.
> > 
> >  however, the top-level program fails because of this in a
> > 
> > lower-level module file:
> > 
> > ...
> > use Archive::Tar;
> > use Archive::Zip qw( :ERROR_CODES :CONSTANTS );
> > ...
> > 
> >  that second "use" statement fails since (and CMIIW as it's been a
> > 
> > while since i've worked with perl) the Zip.pm file on ubuntu is
> > 
> > actually here:
> >  /usr/lib/perl/5.10.1/IO/Compress/Zip.pm
> > 
> > in short, that hard coded "use" referring to Zip.pm is simply going to
> > fail on ubuntu since the perl packaging on ubuntu is not the same as
> > it is on fedora, where you *would* find the Zip.pm file in the "right"
> > 
> > place:
> >  /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Archive/Zip.pm
> > 
> > obviously(?), this could happen numerous times if someone's written a
> > mass of perl code for one distro -- there's no guarantee that any
> > other distro will have the same general module files in the same
> > place.
> > 
> >  is this normal?  what does one normally do with this, other than
> > 
> > just hacking the source until things match?
> > 
> > rday
> > 
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