Re: recommendation

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Yes I would also prefer installing them from rpms, but unfortunately I
usually cannot find the latest versions as .rpm.

Thank you.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Croome" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx>
To: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxx.xx>
Cc: "Philip M. Golllucci" <pgollucci@xxxxxx.xxx>; <modperl@xxxx.xxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: recommendation


> Hi
>
> On Mon 18-Apr-2005 at 01:00:45PM +0300, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> > Sorry for not being too clear.  I want to use Apache and mod_perl
> > under Fedora Core 2 or 3.
> >
> > And I plan to install Apache from sources, perl from sources, and
> > maybe mod_perl from sources also (or using CPAN).
>
> I'd suggest using FC3 or CentOS 4 (the RHEL clone) and using the
> perl that comes with the distro and building your own apache 1.3 and
> mod_perl from source -- ie NOT compiling perl from source.
>
> I wrote some notes on doing this for MKDoc the other day, the only
> differnt thing from what you intend is that I also compiled in
> mod_gzip:
>
>   http://www.mkdoc.org/docs/howto/apache/
>
> > I plan to use it with TemplateToolkit, Image Magick, GD, CGI::Session,
CGI,
> > DBI, DBD::mysql, LWP.
>
> A lot of these are already build for perl on Fedora / Red Hat and
> also more perl things are built by 3rd parties, for example see the
> packages starting perl- here:
>
>   http://dag.wieers.com/packages/
>
> I think all the modules you want are available as RPMS, just install
> DAGs apt or yum  and install them :-)
>
> Chris
>
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