For some reason this is not getting installed (I checked with rpm -qa|grep perl) Can someone tell why based on this output

rpm -ivv perl-Date-Calc-5.3-9.src.rpm
D: ============== perl-Date-Calc-5.3-9.src.rpm
D: Expected size: 201520 = lead(96)+sigs(344)+pad(0)+data(201080)
D: Actual size: 201520
D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
D: locked db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys rdonly mode=0x0
warning: perl-Date-Calc-5.3-9.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e
D: added source package [0]
D: found 1 source and 0 binary packages
D: Expected size: 201520 = lead(96)+sigs(344)+pad(0)+data(201080)
D: Actual size: 201520
perl-Date-Calc-5.3-9
D: ========== Directories not explicitly included in package:
D: 0 /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/
D: 1 /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
D: ==========
D: fini 100664 1 ( 0, 0) 198831 /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/Date-Calc-5.3.tar.gz;4b2c888b
D: fini 100664 1 ( 0, 0) 1878 /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/perl-Date-Calc.spec;4b2c888b
GZDIO: 25 reads, 201100 total bytes in 0.000895 secs
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages

Welcome to LQ.

# yum install perl-Date-Calc
.. will install the package.

The package ' perl-Date-Calc-5.3-9.src.rpm ' is source code.

Like all other SRC.RPMS.
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I am using Enterprise Red hat linux without Yum and so downloaded the rpm src and not able to install . This is a prod machine and I need Date:Calc for some calculations etc.

Well ... as knudfl said (and you admitted) .. it's a SOURCE rpm,
it won't install just like that; you need to follow the proper
process (or, more sensibly, go to the RH site and download the
rpm for the module rather than the source rpm).


Cheers,
Tink

.. Or use the Redhat source
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/lin....2.2.1.src.rpm
> > perl-Date-Calc-5.4-1.2.2.1.src.rpm

And rebuild it to perl-Date-Calc-5.4-1.2.2.1.<arch>.rpm
with : rpmbuild -bb perl-Date-Calc.spec
or : rpmbuild --rebuild perl-Date-Calc-5.4-1.2.2.1.src.rpm

Setting up the rbmbuild environment in /home/"username"/ :
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5.1-766486/#13
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Download this i386 rpm or this x86_64 version, it is exactly the same as one from RHEL's repository. Use to install it.

Or, if you prefer, find the same rpm on Red Hat's repositories.

If rpm requests additional packages, you wiil need to find and download those too. Just go to the RHN repositories and download what you need.

Are you sure you haven't got yum? It's part of the std RHEL install.

I think he ment he has no internet access for that installation, or he installed RHEL without paying for it, in which case he should be using CentOS - free RHEL implementation.

Not paying Redhat ? : Then it's a rather useless OS.

But for perl modules 'cpan' is still at hand ..

1) su
2) cpan
3) cpan > install Date::Calc
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Tried several things

a) No outside access so cant use "CPAN" or YUM like utilities
b) Compiling source failes as "rpmbuild" is not there on this prod machine
c) Tried downloading the binaries provided in this link

rpm -ivh perl-Date-Calc-5.4-1.2.2.1.i386.rpm
warning: perl-Date-Calc-5.4-1.2.2.1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e8562897
error: Failed dependencies:
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by perl-Date-Calc-5.4-1.2.2.1.i386
perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8) is needed by perl-Date-Calc-5.4-1.2.2.1.i386
perl(Bit::Vector) is needed by perl-Date-Calc-5.4-1.2.2.1.i386
perl(Carp::Clan) is needed by perl-Date-Calc-5.4-1.2.2.1.i386
perl-Bit-Vector >= 6.4 is needed by perl-Date-Calc-5.4-1.2.2.1.i386
rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by perl-Date-Calc-5.4-1.2.2.1.i386
Suggested resolutions:
/var/spool/up2dateperl-Bit-Vector-6.3-3.x86_64.rpm
/var/spool/up2dateperl-Date-Calc-5.3-9.x86_64.rpm

I can load the other perl modules but not sure I can load a new libc.so.6 ion this prod machine

No problem, they are usually easy to install manually.

Just get them all from CPAN http://search.cpan.org/

Date::Calc , Bit::Vector , Carp::Clan , Test::Exception,
Sub::Uplevel , Storable .

Example, 'Storable' :
cd Storable-2.21/ , perl Makefile.PL , make , # make install .

Or download the rpm packages, a list is attached ..
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Attached Files

el5-perl-modules.txt (3.0 KB, 33 views)

Thanks for help but I am still running into a lot of dependencies. I need to get the MODULE_COMPAT installed for which I downloaded perl-5.8.8-9.el4s1_4.i386.rpm but then I got back 100s of conflicts from this .


I am tired of these rpms. Is there any file based install for PERL and the DateCalc so I can forget the whole rpm and it database and install this in directory and remove it when I am done ?

I am getting errors like
file /usr/share/man/man3/warnings::register.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-9.el4s1_4 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-36.el4_5.2

Please do not try to replace the system 'perl'
with an older version = perl-5.8.8-9.el4s1_4 .
Your installed version seems to be perl-5.8.5-36.el4_5.2 ?

The module ' Module::Compat ' is provided by
Module-Build-0.3601.tar.gz , use the "Cpan Search" please.

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Yum can be also used for updating/installing from file directory. Just copy entire repositories previously downloaded to same folder and then *with backup) edit /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files to have something like this:

for each repository, and than run your yum commands.