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

[Chris N. <pu...@po...>]

At 23:41 -0800 2001.02.28, Mike Gholson wrote:
>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.

Yes, this is noted in the INSTALL.  Perhaps not prominently enough, though.


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

Good.


>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?

I am not sure, as I don't know what problem you were having with CPAN.


At 10:38 +0200 2001.03.01, Alessio Bragadini wrote:
>This may be better explained in the INSTALL docs (including URLs for
>expat), while we wait for major distributions to include it by default,
>if ever.

There is a URL for expat in INSTALL.  But it is toward the end, where the
required modules are listed, not in the part about using CPAN.pm.

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