Re: Installation Issues

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 12:04, Rich Ireland wrote:
> Barrie Slaymaker wrote:
> > 
> > Let me see if I can reproduce it here and find out what's wrong; I'm
> > getting a name resolution error for ftp.perl.org right now or I'd have a
> > better answer for you in this email.
> > 
> > Can you try installing HTML::Element via CPAN first and seeing if the
> > problem goes away?
> 
> "perl -MCPAN" hangs for me.

Did you do

    perl -MCPAN

(which waits for *you* to type in Perl source code :) or

    perl -MCPAN -e shell

(which launches the CPAN module's shell).  The latter is ugly, but
correct.

> I also cannot resolve ftp.perl.org, would 
> this give cpan a problem?

Only when first configuring it.  It's resolving for me now.

Anyway, HTML::Element installs for me now that ftp.perl.org resolves
here.

I suggest you ignore that prerequisite and carry on.  Using CPAN to get
the other prerequisites by attempting to install the CPAN version of VCP
is a good way to bootstrap, then the latest code from the Perforce
public depot is the better version of VCP to run.

> > You can also safely ignore the HTML prereqs for VCP, they're only needed
> > if you actually produce the HTML.  I can redo that here and check the
> > HTML in to the perforce public depot if you like :).
> 
> What ever works for you.  I'd really just like this all to work :-)

Can't blame you, so would I.

We'll be releasing a fat tarball that contains everything as we go
through the 1.0 release cycle, that's the "it should just work"
solution.  It's been a long way to 1.0 and we need to rebuild the
packager for the fat script, so there's not a current one handy, sorry.

- Barrie