Re: installing perl module (Tk) on RH 9

From: Dave Brown (dhbrown_at_hobbes.dhbrown.net)
Date: 02/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:16:31 GMT

In article <slrnc33c60.1o8.keeling@infidel.spots.ab.ca>, s. keeling wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 23:13:40 GMT, George Costanza <georgecostanz50@hotmail.com>:
>>
>> On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 21:48:30 GMT, Dave Brown
>> <dhbrown@hobbes.dhbrown.net> wrote:
>>
>> >I've not been able to locate an RPM for perl-Tk, and I have an application
>> >that needs it. If I download the tarball from CPAN, it "makes" okay, has
>> >some failures in "make test" and fails "make install". I tried to build a
>>
>> If you goto http://rpm.pbone.net/ and search for perl-tk, you will
>> find two hits for rh9 (one atrpms and one other). Please try this one
>>
>> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/871787/com/perl-Tk-800.024-1.i386.rpm.html
>
> Can't you just "perl -MCPAN -e 'install Perl::Tk'"

Umm--isn't the correct syntax "... -e 'install Tk' "?

Anyhow, using the CPAN module was my initial approach, although I chose
the more pedestrian path of "perl -MCPAN -e shell", and then "install Tk".
but it failed on RH 9; too many "make test" failures. IIRC, it downloaded
a Tk-804.025_beta14. I think the common version is Tk-800.024. Not being
an expert on tracing such problems, I went after an rpm. 

-- 
Dave Brown  Austin, TX