Installing perl modules on FC4 x86_64

David Cary Hart Fedora at TQMcube.com
Thu Oct 20 17:44:23 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 10:28 -0700, Jay Curtis wrote:
> 

> The problem with trying to install perl modules from RPM's is that a lot of
> the perl modules are not available as RPM's.  Is there an easy way to create
> an RPM from the downloaded perl modules to make the RPM subsystem happy?
> Any pointers to an FAQ or HOWTO would be really appreciated. 
> 
If the RPM has a dependency then it is reasonably certain that the
dependency is resolved with another RPM. YUM will sort this out
automatically.

There are a number of perl modules in Fedora Extras. Check the source
rpms for examples. You can often use an existing source rpm as a
template but - again - this should not be necessary.
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