On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 11:42, Phillip Hellewell wrote:Ok here is an idea that hasn't (or i haven't seen) been posted to the list yet. Everyone agrees that it's difficult to use Redhat (or Fedora) without apt-rpm installed, but (from my experiences) because apt-rpm isn't nearly as good as the real apt repository you end up running into a lot of problems exactly like this. Well my suggestion is, if you don't mind a little work, setup portage (Gentoo's install repository) on your Fedora install. The advantages to this is that you can continue using Fedora and can use apt for everything that is in the repository, but when there is something specific you can't find, or if you need to compile something from source, you can emerge it through portage.
Can't locate Tk.pm in @INC...Answer from a Debian user:
I can't find any sort of official or up-to-date perltk rpm for redhat. How do I get this app to work?
1. Download and install apt (http://apt.freshrpms.net/)
2. apt-get install perl-tk
That's exactly what I tried. It's just that from everything I can find on google redhat does not package perl-tk, and neither does anyone else reputable. Oh sure, I found an rpm out on the web, but it had some weird dependancy and I didn't want to start down that path.
I tried installing it with cpan as root like so:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Tk"'
It ran for a long time, downloaded a bunch of stuff, compiled some stuff, and ran a bunch of tests where strange windows popped up and dissappeard quickly. In the end I got this message:
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- t/zzScrolled.t 94 2 2.13% 66 94 (3 subtests UNEXPECTEDLY SUCCEEDED), 2 tests and 31 subtests skipped. Failed 1/47 test scripts, 97.87% okay. 2/2054 subtests failed, 99.90% okay. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 29 /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK Running make install make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
I'm willing to try and force, but I don't know exactly the best way to do that at this point. Any advice here?
Bryan
I have not tried this myself (since i use Gentoo) but reports are it works well. If you want to give it a try check out:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28559 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=125553
Any way it's an option for avoiding these types of situations, i mean think about it you can have the ease of Fedora, convenience of Debian, and power of Gentoo all together.
-Chris
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