perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jochen Reinwand <>]

Hi Christian,

Sorry for the long delay, but it took indeed some time to get things ready.
openSUSE RPMs and CPAN tarballs are now available on the wiki:
http://wiki.perfsonar.net/jra1-wiki/index.php/BWCTL_and_OWAMP_MP

My colleague Verena created the openSUSE RPMs, because we are using openSUSE 
on our desktop machines. So it was quite easy for her to create them. But at 
the moment there is an RPM missing for a Perl module we are using. I will try 
to fix that. Meanwhile you can use the platform independent tarballs, if you 
like. All required RPMs should be available as RPMs for openSUSE, except 
IPC::Shareable. You can install it via one of the typical CPAN methods, 
though.

@Loukik: Should we make the openSUSE RPMs and the platform independent 
tarballs available at the download directory?

regards,
Jochen

On Thursday 15 May 2008 09:49, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> ok, so is there any other way how i can install the BWCTL packages on Suse?
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian
>
> Jochen Reinwand wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > On Thursday 15 May 2008 09:00, Rodesch Christian wrote:
> >> Thanks again for your help. But I don't understand the problem, even
> >> though we use Suse on our servers, the Perl version is the correct one,
> >> so normally it should work or am I wrong?
> >
> > This is not a Perl problem! It's only an RPM problem! Perl RPMs for
> > Fedora expect the dependency 'perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8)'. This
> > dependency is simply unknown in the openSUSE RPM system. I just tried to
> > find it on my openSUSE workstation and haven't found anything similar.
> >
> >> Would it help if I installed Perl 5.10.0 manually?
> >
> > No. It has nothing to do with the Perl version itself. It's really only
> > the RPM system that has problems.
> >
> > regards,
> > Jochen

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