[publican-list] is publican-1.99 available to play with under ubuntu?

[Misty Stanley-Jones]

----- "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:

>   taking a stab at installing 1.99 on my ubuntu 10.04 box, the
> following *seems* to have done it but i'm willing to be corrected --
> i'm still new at ubuntu.

Hi Robert,

If you can verify that this worked for you, I think it would be very helpful for you to write up a guide that other people can use. Thanks for all of the time you have put into it so far!

Thanks,
Misty

> 
>   i grabbed the two noarch rpms from here:
> 
> http://rlandmann.fedorapeople.org/publican/
> 
> used "alien" to simple-mindedly convert them to .deb files, installed
> them and a few tests of running "publican --help" convinced me to:
> 
> 1) export PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0
> 
> and
> 
> 2) install the ubuntu packages
> 
>   * libarchive_zip_perl
>   * libdbi_perl
>   * libtemplate_perl
> 
> at which point i can at least run "publican --help" and have it work.
> beyond that, i haven't done any testing so i have no idea what else
> will fail as i look for the docs that explain how to use this newer
> version.  (are there docs somewhere?)
> 
>   the only thing i skipped was the scriptlets that come with the rpm
> packages but there's only one for the website package:
> 
> postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
> /usr/bin/perl -e 'use Publican::WebSite; my $ws =
> Publican::WebSite->new(); $ws->regen_all_toc();'
> 
>   since website is new to me, i have no idea what that's doing but
> i'm
> guessing i can always run it manually whenever i want before i start
> doing anything website-related, correct?
> 
>   in any event, the above simple steps were enough to at least get me
> to a running publican 1.99 executable on ubuntu 10.04.  i am now
> ready
> to be chastised for what i did wrong. :-)
> 
> rday
> 
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