On Wed, 4 May 2005, Ken Morley wrote:
I apologize in advance if these seem like silly questions, but I'm a bit of a newbie, at least when working with Linux at this level.
I've just installed RedHat ES3 with a close-to-default software package configuration. I just select BASE components for X Windows, GNOME Desktop, Graphical Internet, Games, Server Configuration Tools, DNS Name Server, Administration Tools & Printing Support. I didn't select any optional components for these packages.
I then removed sendmail, redhat-config-samba & samba using RPM. I then ran Up2Date and updated everything except mdadm, perl, samba, smaba-common and open-office.org-libs and restarted.
Perl 5.8.0.88-4 is currently installed. Now, I want to manually install the latest version of Perl. When I run "sh Configure -de" it aborts with an error that it can't find the C compiler. It's looking for "cc".
I thought that maybe I needed to install the base Software Development package, so I tried System Settings => Add/Remove Applications. When I try that, it fails with an unlocatable package krb5-libs which is required by krb5-workstation.
Here are my questions:
1) Shouldn't the base install that I did include a working C compiler?
No. Most apps are distributed as binary anyway--people who compile stuff from scratch are known in the vernacular as "developers" 8^). You need the development tools if you want compliers.
2) If so, what is it called (ie: cc) and where does it reside?
It would be gcc.
3) How do I recover from here to get the C compiler installed so that I can update Perl?
Add/Remove Applications doesn't work properly after packages have been updated from the original distribution. You need to
up2date gcc
4) Should I uninstall Perl before installing the new version (I'll bet there are too many dependencies for that to be practical)? If so, how?
If you are building Perl from source (rather than an RPM), then I would just install it in /usr/local. Then system scripts can use the FC Perl and you can use yours. If you are building an RPM from an SRPM, just upgrade with "rpm -u". You are still at some risk for breaking some dependencies that way, though.
Thanks for your suggestions!
-- Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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