[Dxspider-support] Redhat 8.0.. no way..

[Dirk Koopman]

Do a forced update of perl (rpm -Uvh --force perl-5.8.0.xx.i386.rpm)
from the install discs to get back the original Data::Dumper.

create_sysop.pl should then work.

On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 22:48, Michel Sabatino wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
> 
> The problem is data dumper.
> 
> a.It is no more needed in the last versions of perl.
> b.It will not install as a module..
> c.create_sysop.pl returns error because of data dumper.
> 
> Where is the solution.
> 
> 73, Michel EA8AFJ-IZ5CLJ
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dxspider-support-admin at dxcluster.org]On Behalf Of Dirk Koopman
> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 9:15 PM
> To: dxspider-support at dxcluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Redhat 8.0.. no way..
> 
> On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 10:09, Jaime Robles wrote:
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> > El Sábado, 11 de Enero de 2003 22:29, Ian J Maude escribió:
> > > > ..to get spider run under redhat 8.0
> > > To my knowledge, several people have RH 8.0 working with Spider.
> > > However, curses will not compile so the console does not work.  Spider
> > > should be fine.
> > The problem with curses is not very severe... since you may install an old
> > version of curses.
> >
> > Could you post the error logs of your spider to give a look?
> > Thanks!
> 
> I have DXSpider working on 2 different machines. It works fine.
> 
> What I would say though is that it is becoming more difficult, as time
> goes by, to keep the instructions usable for all possible working
> configurations of perl.
> 
> The best way to install the modules for Linux is to use cpan (perl
> -MCPAN -eshell). You will need to do some configuration when you first
> use it, but taking all the defaults and answering some simple questions
> as to where you are and picking nearish mirrors will get you going.
> 
> For Windows, the ppm package seems to work OK and does roughly the same
> job.
> 
> On the subject of Windows, it appears that Activestate perl 5.8.0 cannot
> be made to work because, for some unaccountable reason, there is no
> DB_File package available for it. However the Activestate perl 5.6.1
> build 633 is just fine.
> 
> The Curses problem I will try and solve another way. I will see if I can
> put a tarfile up on the webserver with the tiny patch needed to make it
> work with perl 5.8.0. The Author seems unwilling to update it himself.
> 
> Dirk
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