how to install WWW::Mechanize using yum
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From: Bennett Haselton on 12 Nov 2009 20:50 I'm on CentOS 5.4 with perl 5.8.8 and I'm trying to install WWW::Mechanize. I try to install Perl modules using "yum" whenever possible because it seems to keep track of what prerequisites are missing and install those prerequisites automatically, and other housekeeping. It seems that if I install some modules with "yum" and other modules without yum, then yum gets confused about whether those modules are installed or not... Anyway, by Googling "yum install" together with "WWW::Mechanize" I found that I can supposedly install it using "yum install perl-WWW- Mechanize", if I first add the right repository to /etc/ yum.repos.d/ . I found this page: http://www.elastix.org/index.php?option=com_openwiki&Itemid=27&id=howto_inatall_elastix_from_centos5 which told me to create elastix.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and copy and paste the text on that page into that file, which I did. However even after doing that, I still get the error "No package perl-WWW-Mechanize available". I couldn't find any other pages on Google even referring to a repository that contained perl-WWW-Mechanize. Is there some other way to install it using yum? More generally, if I have the name of a package that I want to install using yum (although this is generalizing beyond Perl-specific issues), is there a way to search for a repository that contains it? Other than just Googling. Like a centralized repository search engine?
From: Ben Morrow on 13 Nov 2009 08:54 Quoth Bennett Haselton <bennett(a)peacefire.org>: > I'm on CentOS 5.4 with perl 5.8.8 and I'm trying to install > WWW::Mechanize. I try to install Perl modules using "yum" whenever > possible because it seems to keep track of what prerequisites are > missing and install those prerequisites automatically, and other > housekeeping. It seems that if I install some modules with "yum" and > other modules without yum, then yum gets confused about whether those > modules are installed or not... This is generally true of package management systems, though there are exceptions. Some systems provide a simple tool for turning a CPAN distribution into a package you can install, which can be useful when you want to install a module that isn't packaged. > Anyway, by Googling "yum install" together with "WWW::Mechanize" I > found that I can supposedly install it using "yum install perl-WWW- > Mechanize", if I first add the right repository to /etc/ > yum.repos.d/ . I found this page: <snip> These questions are all about using yum. They are nothing to do with perl. I suggest you ask on a RedHat specific group or mailing list. Ben
From: John Gabriele on 13 Nov 2009 11:13 On Nov 12, 8:50 pm, Bennett Haselton <benn...(a)peacefire.org> wrote: > > I try to install Perl modules using "yum" whenever > possible because it seems to keep track of what prerequisites are > missing and install those prerequisites automatically, and other > housekeeping. It seems that if I install some modules with "yum" and > other modules without yum, then yum gets confused about whether those > modules are installed or not... Due to this, I try to always keep the system perl (/usr/bin/perl) separate and distinct from my own perl (usually installed into either / opt/perl or else ~/opt/perl). This way, with your system perl you *only* use `aptitude`/`yum`, and with your own perl you *only* use `cpanp`/`cpan`. ---John
From: Martijn Lievaart on 13 Nov 2009 12:43
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:50:32 -0800, Bennett Haselton wrote: > I couldn't find any other pages on Google even referring to a repository > that contained perl-WWW-Mechanize. Is there some other way to install > it using yum? www.rpmforge.net HTH, M4 |