* Danny Sauer
Carlos wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Removing attachements from stored mails (or my problems with perl)' on Sun, Oct 31 at 06:04: ...
So, I start downloading things from CPAN (actually, from a mirror at perl.com you mentioned). I download Email-MIME-1.8.tar.gz and try to
Ok, this is *way* easier if you use the CPAN shell. Get yourself set up as a user who can install perl modules (typically this means root), and type perl -MCPAN -e'shell' Answer the questions, and type install Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper (for example). The cpan module will take care of installing the module and whatever modules are required. If you say "follow" rather than the default of "ask" when the CPAN setup prompts you about how to handle dependencies, you won't even have to say "yes" when it asks to download the deps. Overall the CPAN shell is super nice.
But you are going away from the SuSE distro standard rpm system and will introduce dependency problems in rpms which are false and eventually cause maintenance problems. Better to find an *rpm* solution, if possible. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos