[Koha] error installing Date::Manip

[Erik Stainsby]

Mr. M. Aftabuddin,

You are correct as MJ Ray has indicated:  RedHat 8.0 and 9.0 have been 
configured to use UTF-8 aware locales.
However many (most?) perl modules available on CPAN and elsewhere are not yet 
updated to use the perl 5.8.0 UTF-8 locales.

To accomplish the install of some non-UTF-8 locales, you must override the 
UTF-8 locale.  Date::Manip is one of many packages which requires this.
I have had success by resetting the LANG= environment variable and have also 
occassionally used the LC_ALL= environment variable.

You can override the locale permanently (NOT advised) or temporarily.

Open a terminal window and enter the command MJ Ray suggested:
[library at ibm2 library]# export LC_ALL=C

You can then proceed to run cpan and install non-UTF-8 packages.
When you log out of the terminal session the LC_ALL= variable will be reset to 
the system default as per your original installation choices.

The underlying problem, which you asked about is that it is a problem of all 
three parties: RedHat, Date::Manip, and perl in general.  A problem of 
synchronization of code between evolving generations.  It is a growing pain.
Time will correct this eventually.  For now we must correct it ourselves as 
occasions arise.

Mark,
Perhaps a check for this sort of case could add a note to the missing packages 
information that is printed to terminal in the install script?   Are you 
maintaining this script now?

HTH, 
Erik
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On August 11, 2003 04:24 am, Md. Aftabuddin wrote:
> When I issue locale command in redhat 8.0 I get the following:-
>
> [library at ibm2 library]$ locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
>
> When I issue locale command in redhat 7.1 I get the following:-
>
>
> [library at ibm2 library]$ locale
> LANG=en_US
> LC_CTYPE="en_US"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
> LC_TIME="en_US"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
> LC_PAPER="en_US"
> LC_NAME="en_US"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
> LC_ALL=
>
>
> in both the cases LC_ALL=  is blank
> so what to do, I think it is the problem for UTF-8
>
> Md. Aftabuddin
> _____________________________
>
>
> -----------------------------
>
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, MJ Ray wrote:
> >>Md. Aftabuddin <aftab at cubmb.ernet.in> wrote:
> >>> I have linux Redhat 8.0.
> >>> When I am trying to install Date::Manip as from tar.gz I get,
> >>
> >>Please try entering
> >>  export LC_ALL=C
> >>as a command on its own before the installation.  Let us know if it
> >>works.
> >>
> >>Gurus on the list: is this a problem with Date::Manip, Redhat or perl?
> >>
> >>--
> >>MJR/slef   My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know.
> >>
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