perl and sh

joel112 · 04-29-2003, 04:44 AM

i have installed slack after get narked with ded rat

but when i try to install webmin i get

error failed dependancies
/bin/sh
/usr/bin/perl

if i do :

$ which perl i get /usr/bin/perl

and if i do

$ which sh i get /bin/sh

wtf is wrong, i think its not reporting it correctly anyone know how to fix it?

jharris · 04-29-2003, 04:50 AM

At what point do you get this error? Are you installing from source?

cheers

Jamie...

joel112 · 04-29-2003, 04:54 AM

from rpm at the command line

rpm -Uvh webmin<ver>.noarch.rpm

cheers

joel

jharris · 04-29-2003, 05:09 AM

RPM is an unsupported tool in Slackware so when it checks for other packages being installed (in this case sh and perl) they're not registered. You're better off installing from Source or a Slackware tarball. I know there is an option to force RPM to install but have no idea what it is. Check out the man page.

HTH

Jamie...

Waldi · 04-29-2003, 08:26 AM

There is an install script included in Webmin source tarballs, so installing is quick and easy. No needs to use RPM packages. Slackware .tgz packages for Webmin are probably not yet prepared, I couldn't find it anywhere.
By the way, Webmin is really usefull tool, when someone prefers GUI way of system configuration.

joel112 · 04-29-2003, 08:37 AM

yeh sorted it now.... webmin is great, just makes things loads easier