[freeside] Install Hints (i.e. finding MailTools)

[ivan]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:47:38PM -0800, rbstewart wrote:
> I tried to use the recommended CPAN bundle,

What are yout talking about?  What is "the recommended CPAN bundle"?  
There isn't a Bundle::Freeside on CPAN, and as far as I know, the person 
putting it together lost interest.

> but it installed them in the 
> wrong order according to the program dependencies and therefore some of 
> the modules failed to install.  I went back and installed everything in 
> the order that is listed in Ivan's documentation and followed the 
> program dependencies religiously (there are modules required that are 
> not in the docs)

Maybe you should, oh, I don't know, be specific about which modules 
those are, or send a documentation patch?  I'm certainly not aware the 
documentation is incomplete.

> and everything worked fine afterwards.
> 
> bs
> 
> Kenneth Kron wrote:
> 
> >I had trouble getting several of the perl modules from CPAN mostly 
> >because of the use of the - vs. the :: in module names.
> >Of the list only Locale-Codes really does need a hyphen there.
> >
> >Also libnet is Bundle::libnet.  These are not complaints just info for 
> >anyone else who stumbles across these problems.
> >
> >Also CPAN simply refused to find anything called MailTools (probably 
> >just temporary DB corruption)
> >I finally got that by just going to the mail modules list and 
> >searching down the page.
> >
> >http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Mail/
> >
> >Here's my list of modules suitable for cutting and pasting into a cpan 
> >command line
> >Array::PrintCols MIME::Base64 Digest::MD5 MD5 URI HTML::Tagset 
> >HTML::Parser Net::Whois Business::CreditCard Data::ShowTable 
> >File::CounterFile FreezeThaw String::Approx Text::Template DBI 
> >DBIx::DataSource DBIx::DBSchema Net::SSH String::ShellQuote Net::SCP 
> >Apache::ASP HTML::Mason Tie::IxHash Time::Duration 
> >HTML::Widgets::SelectLayers Storable Cache::Cache Bundle::libnet
> >
> >
> >These I had to go get manually
> >MailTools
> >TimeDate
> >DateManip
> >Locale-codes
> >
> >And you have to choose
> >DBD::pg
> >or
> >DBD::mysql.
> >
> >I haven't actually gotten freeside running yet so I'm not positive I'm 
> >doing this right but I atleast appear to have the prereqs.
> >
> >kk
> >
> >
> 
> 

-- 
_ivan