[TriLUG] Request Tracker and perl dependency nightmare

[Brian Daniels]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:25:56AM -0400, David McDowell wrote:
> I'm running CentOS 4.x and intend to get Request Tracker up and
> running.  About 2-3 years ago I found a place that had a repo setup
> for RPMs of RT, including all the perl packages so that installing
> this beast wasn't such a nightmare.  That sight has disappeared.  RT
> has certainly grown since then as well, but even today, someone like
> Dag doesn't even appear to attempt the daunting task of having a repo
> work easily for RT installation.  Any tips or does someone know a
> secret location for the latest RPMs with the perl deps all figured
> out?  If not that, any tips on figuring out all the perl deps?  Please
> note that I'm not knowledgable in the world of perl...
> 

RT includes a script rt-test-dependencies that can install them for you through 
CPAN.  It still may require some handholding if something fails to install 
(looking at the CPAN output and finding the missing dependency that prevented a 
module from installing).

--Brian

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