--On Monday, September 22, 2003 19:23 +0100 Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I'm playing away here, as I know nothing about RPM other than
that it is a package manager and pro9bably specific to RedHat
Linux.

Having said that, it looks like you are trying to install a
module called MySQL::client, which I've never heard of and
isn't available on the definitive CPAN site.

Unless you have a reason to go along this route (when I think
you will need Linux-specific help) you should use the Database
Independent interface module 'DBI' together with the MySQL
driver module 'DBD::MySQL', with which most Perl database
programmers are familiar.

You've got Perl on the brain. ;-) An RPM doesn't have to be a Perl module. What he's trying to do is install a database client (like you would write using the DBI) program (MySQL-client-4.0.15-0) that happens to depend on Perl. (Presumably it is partially written in Perl, maybe using the DBI.) The install is complaining that Perl is not installed.


I missed the original question, but I would echo the advice to use your distro's help resources to fix this, assuming you are sure Perl is installed.

Daniel T. Staal

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