[TriLUG] CPAN and SpamAssassin

[Jeremy Portzer]

The problem here is that you are mixing two different package management
systems.  This is a recipe for disaster unless you are really careful.
CPAN's shell ("perl -MCPAN -e shell") uses its own system for
installing, compiling, and keeping track of modules.  This doesn't
interface with RPM at all, so RPM has no idea that you've installed the
HTML::Parser this way.

Fortunately, there's a very nice solution.  Instead of the CPAN shell
commands, use the "cpan2rpm" script (google-it) to automatically
download, compile, and RPM-ize Perl modules.  "cpan2rpm -i HTML::Parser"
would be all you'd need to type.  If building as non-root, which you
should for safety, it will automatically run sudo for the RPM
installation step.

And why in the world are you using RHL 7.1?  Upgrade to Fedora Core 2,
or RHEL or CentOS 3. :-)

Jeremy

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 11:22, gregbrown at mindspring.com wrote:
> Okay.  I'm trying to install SpamAssassin a RH 7.1 machine.  So far 
> I've got the machine upgraded via yum about as far as it can be.
> 
> When I try to install perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63 I get the following 
> error:
> 
> perl(HTML::Parser) is needed 
> 
> So I go to CPAN (perl -MCPAN -e shell).  I did a full update of CPAN 
> from the sell, reloaded CPAN then tried the following:
> 
> cpan> install HTML::Parser
> 
> to which I got:
> 
> HTML::Parser is up to date.
> 
> Okay...
> 
> So, CPAN says I have HTML::Parser and RPM doesn't.  Any ideas on 
> how I can resolve this?
> 
> Greg
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