How do I get past an HTML::entities discrepancy on an RPM? - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

jjinno · #1 08-06-2007

[Fedora 7] I have an RPM that I am trying to install and it keeps coming back with:

Quote:

perl(HTML::Entities) is needed by my-super-duper.rpm

I know I could kill the bird by throwing a "yum install *perl*" at it, but this seems like hurling a skyscraper at an ant...

any better suggestions?

sysgate · #2 08-07-2007

Aparently, the application won't run without HTML::Entities, so later or now you will have to install it. If you want to supress this error message, use "--nodeps" flag, and then install HTML::Entities.. The other way for installing such perl packages is

Code:

perl -MCPAN -e install Packet::Name

...Ops. I'm reading the post again, it seems that you're doing the installation via "yum", so --nodeps won't be available. It's option to "rpm" command. If I got it correctly, first install the perl module, and then "yum"

jjinno · #3 08-07-2007

I actually did use your first suggestion... installed the Perl module, but the dependency failure still occurred. Thats when I ran the --nodeps flag, and it installed, and works perfectly.

Thanks.

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