installing the perl-Tk module

[Rick Garland]

Hi all:

Got RH 2.1 AS on Dell PE1650.
I am working on getting Bastille setup and running on this system but I am having a hard time loading the required module - the perl-Tk module.

Have obtained the perl-Tk-800.024-2.i386.rpm from the rpmfind site. When I do the rpm install (rpm -ivh ) is errors out saying that failed dependencies libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.3) is needed by perl-Tk.

When I do the rpm -ivh for the glibc-2.2.4-26.i386.rpm it errors out and says "file <> from install of glibc-2.2.4-26 conflicts with file from package glibc-2.2.4-26."

My expectation would be "the package is already installed" which it is.

How can I get around this seemingly endless loop?

Many thanks!

[Mark Grant]

Rick, any reason why you didn't just use "cpan" to check out the perl tk module?

[Rick Garland]

2 reasons why not CPAN.

1) Research on Bastille says this module works
2) On CPAN there are numerous perl-Tk modules, which one to choose?

[Huc_1]

Did you try installing it with Uvh ?

Probaly the answer is yes ?

J-P

[Mark Grant]

Wow, there are a lot of tk modules!

I see your point.

[Huc_1]

From my rh9 I found following link as where it came from.

Perhaps you could compare ?

http://search.cpan.org/author/NI-S/Tk-800.024/

to find this i did a rpm -qRvvi perl-Tk

J-P

[Rick Garland]

Tried using the rpm -Uvh with no success.
Did download and install the Bundle::Tk from CPAN, again no success.

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Hello Rick,

get the latest stable Perl-Tk from CPAN.

Then follow the normal steps:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

This should leave you with a working perl Tk linked againt your current glibc.

I have done this often on my Linux systems without running into problems.

Greetings, Martin

[Stuart Browne]

Rick, the dependancy error just means that it was compiled using a newer glibc version than you are using.

Two choices, one: grab the source and compile yourself as has been previously mentioned.

two: grab the source RPM, and rebuild it using 'rpm --rebuild perl-Tk-800.024-2.src.rpm'.

This should compile new RPM's (to end up in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/) that will work on your specific environment.

At worst, you may need to install the src rpm, and tweak the dependancy list in '/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/perl-Tk.spec' (or whatever it calls it's self). Look at the version numbers after the 'Requires' lines.

To rebuild after you've tweaked, you have to issue a different command, 'rpm -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/perl-Tk.spec', but the built RPM's end up in the same place.