RE: [Slashcode-general] Probs w/ Install RH 6.2 and 7.0

[Mike G. <mt...@mg...>]

Chris (and others watching),

Here's the latest on this venture.  Apologies for the delay.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Nandor [mailto:pu...@po...]
> 
> At 10:52 -0800 2001.02.25, Mike Gholson wrote:
> >perl Makefile.PL -- success
> >make             -- success
> >make install     -- success
> 
> Good.
> 
> 
> >> Then please test everything out (what you can; especially 
> stuff like
> >> install-slashsite, slashd, portald, etc.) and report back; if
> >> it works for
> >> you, then the fix is just to change PREFIX to something else.
> >------------------
> >
> >install-slashsite -- fails (see below)
> >
> >[root@Fairlady bin]# ./install-slashsite
> >Can't locate XML/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC
> >contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
> >/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux 
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
> >.) at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/Slash/Utility.pm line 36.
> 
> Is XML::Parser installed?
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It was trying to install.  But, it saw errors.


> >slashd start -- fails (see below)
> >
> >NOT Starting slashd: No /usr/local/slash/slash.sites
> 
> I believe slash.sites is created when the site is created.  If
> install-slashsite does not create a site, there are no sites 
> for slashd to
> run against.
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Yep.


> :)  Thanks.  It looks like it is all OK, except for the lack of
> XML::Parser.  It could be that when you ran Bundle::Slash, 
> you did not have
> expat installed, so XML::Parser failed.  Re-run the install of
> Bundle::Slash (it will safely skip anything already 
> installed).  See the
> note in INSTALL about expat.
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I tried to install Bundle::Slash and kept failing during the 
XML section.  Kept seeing the 'missing parser.pm @INC' error.

I then tried a manual install of XML-Parser from the link supplied
in the Install doc: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=XML-Parser

That failed because it needed expat.  So, that was downloaded
from SourceForge.

Cutting story short:  After installing these two packages manually,
the install-slashsite file worked w/out error.

My opinion:  Using CPAN wasn't working correctly.  Upon manual
install of the files, it seems to be working.  Could it be my
selection of CPAN download sites?  Possibly timing out or lack
of all CPAN modules?  What's a good CPAN site to use for the
Slash distribution files?

[m]