After reading Dereks post I am a bit concern and don't want to kludge other progs by confusing them or breaking their dependencies. I will give Patricks suggestion a try though, so at least I have some knowledge as to where I would find these should I proceed.

To the best of my knowledge, the Perl XML handling is not a vital part of the distro. It's not even installed on this 8.1 box I'm currently looking at. I think you could remove the expat based stuff using YaST, install the libxml2 development stuff if you don't already have it, then compile the libxml Perl package from CPAN in the usual way. AFAICS, that would work, and if it doesn't it'd be fairly easy to back out. If it were me, I'd give it a go. But it ain't me - no warranty with this advice! -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003

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I think you could remove the expat based stuff using YaST,

I personnaly would not do it, see the list of pkgs that will be removed, if expat is removed....

That's "expat based stuff", not expat! expat is the defacto standard pre-libxml XML parser and is, as you say, important. The Perl library interface to expat isn't particularly improtant, and could be replaced with the libxml2 interface without apparent problems. I did it on SuSE-7.1 and can't see any reason why it should cause problems on 8.x. -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 May 2003 16:32, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

* Curtis Rey; on 30 Apr, 2003 wrote:

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I need to install the perl-XML-libXML packages but it isn't included in the SuSE 8.1 discs and I am unsure what package provides it or if I can find it as a independent/stand-alone packages.

Does anyone know where/how I can find this lib?

type the following in a term (console Xterm mlterm)

$ perl -MCPAN -e shell;

( if you have not configured CPAN it will ask couple of questions if you answer prerequisites_policy "follow" CPAN will get the necessary packages for you. ) type

cpan> i XML::LibXML

this will give you the information about the package

cpan> make XML::LibXML

will get the package along with the missing parts also if you look to CPAN documentation "man CPAN" you can have other info as howto install packages as user.

Alternatively get cpan2rpm from ftp://dinamizm.ath.cx so you can build RPMS of the packages (note that cpan2rpm also depends on your cpan configuration)

Ok, Looks like this program could seriously rock. However, I ran across this when doing a cpan> install XML::LibXML t/19encoding.....skipped all skipped: no reason given t/20extras.......ok t/22iterator.....ok Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- t/08findnodes.t 0 11 18 13 72.22% 6-18 2 tests skipped. Failed 1/21 test scripts, 95.24% okay. 13/563 subtests failed, 97.69% okay. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 29 /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK Running make install make test had returned bad status, won't install without force cpan> When I follow the instructions you gave me it created a dir "/root/.cpan" and put the files there. So, of course, using the "install" flag for the libs went straight to the .cpan dir and found what it was looking for. So, question. Do I try re-get and then install (due to possible bad download) or use the "force" flag? Cheers, Curtis :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+szPW7WVLiDrqeksRAhrMAJ9FiKGFblLIdmw5cWLJffgogRvoPgCeJuui vN+udEjk8zdg6YepCjQLbpk= =+g7h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 May 2003 23:28, Derek Fountain wrote:

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When I follow the instructions you gave me it created a dir "/root/.cpan" and put the files there. So, of course, using the "install" flag for the libs went straight to the .cpan dir and found what it was looking for. So, question. Do I try re-get and then install (due to possible bad download) or use the "force" flag?

Install with force. If it's 97.7% happy, then it'll do what you want. :o)

The main reason Perl modules fail their tests, in my experience, is because the tests are run as root, and the testcases bail out of doing unsafe things when run with full priviledges.

I'm not sure if this is the case here - I suspect not since finding nodes is merely a tree lookup. The 2.3% of failed tests are more likely to be borderline cases where the test and code aren't quite in sync. Remember, you're dealing with 2 very different packages here: libxml2 and Perl. Just force the install and try it. I bet it works.

Yep the force got it to go. And you were correct in that 97.60% happy on the fail so, if your right then I shouldn't have any real problems. I be back it something crops up. Thanks all, and very cool to use CPAN, this feature rocks. Cheers, Curtis :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+s1KV7WVLiDrqeksRAtGEAJ0eBPIgs96qCcJ0sJEc8s3qTjJKFACghzLk JRrzW4tkQI0Z14MaZMydExI= =p6gf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 May 2003 00:17, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

* Curtis Rey; on 02 May, 2003 wrote:

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When I follow the instructions you gave me it created a dir "/root/.cpan" and

I normally run it as a normal user and for for building rpms if I am not using "build" package of SuSE I have defined in my ".rpmmacros

%_topdir /home/toganm/devel/Builder/packages

so my rpms are in my $HOME environment I think I'll run it next time under my user account to try as you suggest.

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put the files there. So, of course, using the "install" flag for the libs went straight to the .cpan dir and found what it was looking for. So, question. Do I try re-get and then install (due to possible bad download) or use the "force" flag?

force should do yet YMMV

Ya, it was 97.67% happy on fail so I don't think too much should kludge. I apprectiate the heads up about his - it rocks. Thanks again Togan! :-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+s1fe7WVLiDrqeksRAtJRAJoCxitsjKYwfQA2fmZUkLp/aZKGuACfVCug g00jN+Y2TRZkjfb+dQ6kIck= =ZIen -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----