On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 11:17 -0400, John Simonds wrote:
With repect to installing dependencies, how does one know which Perl dependencies ARE available and when do we rely on CPAN to replace them? Is the "package maintainer" the original Koha download and if so, how do we know what packages are missing?
Here is what I did: * The INSTALL.debian-lenny file lists some of the dependencies as Debian packages, and I installed those. * During the installation, if I noticed some CPAN package missing, I would first try to install it from a Debian package. If the CPAN package is Foo::Bar::BitTwiddle, the corresponding Debian package is libfoo-bar-bitwiddle-perl. * If the Debian package does not exist (the CPAN package is not packaged for Debian), I would install it with the cpan command in Debian. I got Koha running, but I do not know if my procedure was the ideal one. It would be excellent to help Debian get packages for all the stuff from CPAN that Koha needs. I hope to work on that a bit in the near future.