[rt-users] Request Tracker and installation problem!!

[Odhiambo Washington]

* bill s <opensource22 at yahoo.com> [20041011 03:02]: wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was trying to install Request Tracker 3.2.2 on Suse
> 9.1 Professional. The perl
> modules for some reason do not install when try to
> install them using CPAN. It spits messages like the
> following. one of the messages is:
> 
> **********************************************
> "Warning: prerequisite Test::Manifest 0.9 not found.
> Writing Makefile for XML::RSS
> ---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during
> [K/KE/KELLAN/XML-RSS-1.05.tar.gz]-----
>     Test::Manifest
> Shall I follow them and prepend them to the queue
> of modules we are processing right now? [yes] no"
> 
> **********************************************
> Why is CPAN not fetching and installing or fixing the
> dependencies?
> How do I fix them?

perl -MCPAN -e shell
type "o conf init" and press enter

..then choose/configure the default options/behaviour for the
CPAN module. After that you type

 o conf commit


> Did anybody install Request Tracker on Suse 9.1
> successfully? 

It should install on almost all Unixes which have Perl
without a problem. The only problems may come during configuration but
not installation.


> If so, which Apache module "mod_perl or fastcgi", did
> you use?

Use any that you prefer. They all work!



        cheers
       - wash 
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