[rt-users] installing rt2 onto debian

[seph]

hi, I'm seph.

> 2. "cpan->dpkg": is there a nifty/auto way to go from cpan to a .deb?
>    or, did you just package them yourself (i've never done that)?

yes. one of the neat debian developers wrote and packaged a cpan->deb
script. It works pretty well, though it does require perl-5.6, and
it's happier running on testing or unstable. the package is called
dh-make-perl. It's documented fairly well, but to be real quick I was
running stuff like "dh-make-perl --build --cpan Log::Dispatch"

I did have a little trouble building DBIx-SearchBuilder-0.41, and
ended up downloading it, cd'ing to the directory, and building with
"dh-make-perl --build ." IIRC my cpan mirror just didn't have a new
enough version, yours might.

> 1. could you please share your .deb's (so i wouldn't have to figgure
>    out how to make them all :).  source .debs would be ideal (as we
>    may not be running the same release), but binaries would also be
>    much appreciated.

it's probably better if you just build your own using the cpan->deb
thing, but if you're having trouble, and are using testing or
unstable, I can send you mine. (the converter doesn't produce source debs)

I hope that answered everything okay.

seph