[Xmltv-devel] Re: problems

[Ed A. <ed...@me...>]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Cedar McKay wrote:

>>Please try getting the latest CVS version of XMLTV

>I did as you asked and your new Makefile.PL does detect the problem.

That's good news.

>But doing CPAN>install Date::Manip but it just tells me that I'm
>already up to date. Is there a way to force CPAN to reinstall a
>module?

I don't know.  I always download the module by hand and do 'perl
Makefile.PL' then 'make test install'.

Ah, you can uninstall the Red Hat package of Date::Manip.  As root
say:

% rpm -e perl-DateManip

Does it work or does it warn about dependencies?  You can use the
--nodeps flag to make it uninstall anyway.  Then with the standard
version no longer installed, CPAN should be happy.  Tell me what you
did and I can make a set of instructions for RH8 users.

>Oh, and I tried that env LANG=C trick and it did suppress the error
>messages. Are there any disadvantages to that trick?

It affects the language of messages you get.  But you probably have
your machine set to English anyway, so no.  Besides you only need to
set LANG=C when using the xmltv programs.

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Ed Avis <ed...@me...>