On Tue, 22 Jan 2019, Dick Steffens wrote:
I'm trying Rich's recommendation. I have two terminal windows open. CPAN is running in one. I run clamtk in the other. Each time I run it I get another requirement for another Pearl module, so I install it in CPAN and try running clamtk again. I figure since it's a different "new" requirement, I'll just keep working through them until it either it or I get exhausted.
Dick, If you want to fully experience requirements hell, try installing pandoc. This is an application that transforms documents from one format to another format <https://pandoc.org/>. As the index page notes, "If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. Pandoc can convert documents in (several dialects of) Markdown, reStructuredText, textile, HTML, DocBook, LaTeX, MediaWiki markup, TWiki markup, TikiWiki markup, Creole 1.0, Vimwiki markup, roff man, OPML, Emacs Org-Mode, Emacs Muse, txt2tags, Microsoft Word docx, LibreOffice ODT, EPUB, or Haddock markup to ..." Cool, eh? But, it's written in Haskell. After building/installing about 18 or so Haskell modules from Slackbuilds.org I gave up, removed all those packages, and went on with my life. Installing many packages for a language used for only a single application here was not worth the effort. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
