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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

Well... found work-arounds, but still....

For those who might find it useful:

- getting XML::LibXML to build required "apt-get install zlib1g 
zlib1g-dev" - not sure why, but XML::LibXML looks to libxml2 for libz, 
and between cpan and the debian packaging, the dependencies aren't set 
up right - apparently a long-standing bug, with lots of bug reports and 
verbiage, but it took a lot of googling to find the actual solution - if 
zlib isn't installed, everything breaks, and doesn't tell you why

- for the other perl modules, I ended up having to build a bunch 
manually - I let cpan download them and tell me that the builds failed, 
cd.d into ~/.cpan/build/<module> - and did the standard perl 
Makefile.PL; make; make test; make install - and found a lot of 
dependencies that didn't get resolved by a cpan install - the funny 
thing is that for each message about a missing dependency, I could use 
cpan to install the missing module, and then had to go back and manually 
complete the builds of the problematic modules

- all in all, seems like it was a lot more work than last time around

Miles Fidelman

Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm trying to install Sympa 6.0.1 on a new machine (Depian Lenny, new 
> install, on top of a xen kernel) - and I'm getting all kinds of errors 
> in getting the required perl modules installed.
>
> First off, there are several modules which sympa-wizard.pl --check 
> says are not installed, but I've installed them manually with cpan, 
> and the wizard still doesn't find them.
>
> Then there's XML::LibXML - which I just can't get to build - via cpan, 
> or by manually running perl Makefile.pl, etc.  It can't seem to find 
> one of the required libraries, even though libxml2 is installed (I've 
> tried both the Debian package and manually building it).
>
> The funny thing is that, on another Debian Lenny machine - that's a 
> little older - the modules are there, and an upgrade for Sympa 5.4.2 
> to 6.0.1 went (sort of) smoothly. (I'm trying to migrate from the 
> older machine to the newer one and now I'm stuck.)
>
> Am I the only one running into this, or has anybody else out there run 
> into similar problems?  And if so, how did you work through them?
>
> Alternatively, any suggestions on how to role back to version 5 (I did 
> save the database) - what else has to be restored?
>
> Any advice would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Miles Fidelman


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