[Chicago-talk] cpan problems in Fedora 9

[Paul Mantz]

Fedora maintainers hold the position that you're SOL if you're trying
to install things from CPAN yourself.  You should always look to the
fedora repositories first to see if a package is available there; as
it's made specifically for your operating system, and you don't have
to worry about compiling.

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Alan Mead <amead2 at alanmead.org> wrote:
> I know this isn't a Fedora mailing list but if any of use F9, I think you
> may have solved this problem and some of you may know what level of support
> Perl has in Fedora these days.
>
> I've previously used FC3 & FC4, and in F9 the cpan script is apparently
> split off as a separate rpm (which is inconvenient).  When I tried to use
> yum to install the perl-CPAN module, I get an error message "Error: Missing
> Dependency: perl = 4:5.10.0-20.fc9 is needed by package
> perl-CPAN-1.9205-20.fc9.i386 (fedora)" which is funny (ha ha) because the
> installed version of Perl is 5.10.0-31.fc9...  I don't know whether I'll
> have problems later? but I think I have solved it by manually downloading
> perl-CPAN and forcing it to be installed.
>
> I was also wondered whether anyone had a thought about whether it's better
> to use Fedora's pre-compiled modules or just use cpan?  I guess the
> pre-built DBI/DBD modules have been useful, but a lot of the modules I might
> use are not there so I've always just relied upon the cpan script in the
> past.
>
> -Alan
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