(hmm) I'm reinstalling with suse 9.0 at this point, but for the last 5 SuSE releases, I've found better results, by -not- using the RPM's (well I allow the RPM's to be installed to mungle the dependcies list for RPM), but I install/recompile Perl, Apache, mod-perl and AxKit. As soon as there is a problem, the first recomendation that you will get (most cases...) is to rebuild the packages with the latest revision. And I have /never/ had success updating an RPM built perl with CPAN modules. Your mileage will vary...
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 8:47 AM Subject: Axkit Installation on default SUSE 9.0 installation Hi, Is there anyone who's managed to achieve the above and could give me a few pointers? I've been reading webpages and the mail archives for the past three days and just don't seem to be making any progress. If I could get this working, I think I'd be happy to reinstall it and write up the solution for a WiKi page like the two Red Hat installation descriptions currently available. >From installation, I've installed the apache packages (not Apache2 - tho I made that mistake originally) along with the mod_perl module. I confirmed this was up and working by running a few perl scripts and checking the logs to make sure mod_perl was compiled. I also installed the latest SUSE xml library RPM's for: libxml2 libxml2-devel libxml2-python libxslt libxslt-devel libxslt-python I believe these are installed correctly as I'm able to run xmlconfig from the command line. The default locale in /etc/sysconfig/language is temporarily set to en_US to avoid some of the posts I read regarding perl / UTF-8 issues. Naively, I hoped I could now install the required modules from the CPAN command line, finishing up with Axkit, as detailed in: http://axkit.org/wiki/view/AxKit/AxKitRedHat9AnotherWay# However, as soon as I reach install XML::LibXML::Common it fails out due to what appears to be (according to the mailing list archive) the now familiar: > running xml2-config... ok > looking for -lxml2... no > looking for -llibxml2... no > libxml2 not found > Try setting LIBS and INC values on the command line > Or get libxml2 from > http://www.libxml.org/ > If you install via RPMs, make sure you also install the -devel > RPMs, as this is where the headers (.h files) are. So, what do I do here? I have definitely installed the appropriate SUSE RPMs. I've tried setting the LIBS, INC and PERL5LIB bash variables to the right location (I think it's /usr/include/libxml2) but that doesn't seem to have any affect on the CPAN shell. I've downloaded the source from xmlsoft.org but I don't know if I should install it. If I try to remove all of the libraries mentioned above I get a list of programs which depend on it, including gcc which I will need to compile the source code I want to replace it with! I also have no idea how to install the src version alongside the rpm (if that were possible). So ... can anyone point me in the right direction or show me a mail I may have missed which explains where I'm going wrong? Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]