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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

On 4/8/19 4:08 AM, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
> On 4/7/19 8:52 PM, Charles Martin wrote:
> > I found the lists in the database. Since I am moving to a new host, I thought 
> > I might as well upgrade to the latest
> > version of sympa while I'm fixing this. But I'm running into a dependencies 
> > problem. Following the cookbook at
> >
> > https://sympa-community.github.io/manual/install
> >
> > I got to the "Configuring system log" step, and when ran the testlogs 
> > utility, I got
> >
> > Can't locate Net/Netmask.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /home/sympa/bin 
> > /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5
> > /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 
> > /usr/share/perl5 .) at [etc.]
> >
> >
> > I installed sympa using yum in Centos 7. But the new VPS provider had already 
> > copied my old sympa installation to the
> > server, which likely is the source of the problem. Any thoughts on how to 
> > recover?
> Hello Charles,
>
> it is possible that Perl modules were copied over, but their dependencies 
> were installed as Perl system modules.
> You can check which Perl modules with the rpm command and install them on the 
> new system.
>
> Regards
>          Racke

For what it's worth, I've never found package managers to be very 
helpful with complex software.

I've always had to build Sympa from source (pretty easy, given that it's 
perl), and use cpan to install/update perl modules.


>
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