Re: libdigest-md5-perl and perl-5.8.+ upgrading problems/Debian?

On Sun, 2005-27-02 at 12:01 -0800, Peter Curran wrote:
> Hi,
> Please help with this problem running on a
> Debian/Unix:
> 
> One of the first requirements in installing ispman is
> to install libdigest-md5-perl. This will work with
> perl-5.6. But upon trying to upgrade to higher version
> of perl or apache-ssl, one is prompted to remove
> libdigest-md5-perl.
> Could someone give the solution to upgrading to higer
> version of perl while maintaining libdigest-md5-perl.
> Or is there another package that will do the functions
> of libdigest-md5-perl and allow the upgrade of perl or
> apache-ssl?

In such a situation I'd just use CPAN to install that perl module,
rather then Debian's packages (which sometimes don't get built in the
right order).

Run:

$ perl -MCPAN -e shell
# ... answer any questions it asks ... #
cpan> install Digest::MD5


-- Wim



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