Centos 4.3, rt no joy. (DBD::Oracle ?)

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Attempted to install 3.6.0 on Centos 4.3 (up to date as of this am)
I’ve been trying for a few weeks, on and off to get this working.

Finally gave up trying to resolve seemingly endless dependencies
and hunted around for a rpm based (yum preferrably) based install.

Finding Request Tracker Wiki I was
pleased, and followed the instructions (to the letter, after failing
many times to do it ‘my way’)

I die at;

Error: Missing Dependency: perl(DBD::Oracle) is needed by package
perl-DBIx-SearchBuilder

sigh,
Apparently, satisfying this dependency is pretty endless and
more or less requires an Oracle installation.

I don’t want Oracle, don’t even particularly like Oracle.

I emailed Paulo Matos a couple of weeks ago, and no response to
date.

No joy.

Suggestions?

Thanks kindly in advance,
–chipper

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Attempted to install 3.6.0 on Centos 4.3 (up to date as of this am)
I’ve been trying for a few weeks, on and off to get this working.

[…]

Chip -

I’ve been running 3.6.0 on CentOS 4.3 without too many troubles, after
perusing the RHEL4 and fedora 4 install guides at
Request Tracker Wiki and

http://wiki.bestpractical.com/index.cgi?FedoraCore4InstallGuide

(I stuck mostly to the former; I’m using FastCGI and the setup process
for 3.6 is basically the same.)

I can’t help you much with the RPM install, but if you decide to go back
to the from-scratch approach feel free to give me a holler.

I notice that I don’t seem to have DBD::Oracle installed, and
DBIx::SearchBuilder doesn’t appear to mind.

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I’ve never tried the RPM-based install, but there are a couple of
ways to satisfy the dependencies. I generally try to keep my perl
modules out of the RPM system, so you’d be using CPAN instead of a
package manager/repository like yum.

If you still have the source sitting around and it’s the same version
as the to-be-installed RPM version, from the source:

$ make testdeps
$ make fixdeps

(Rinse, wash, repeat until make testdeps is happy.)

If there are still missing chunks, figure out what’s going on by
trying to install them from CPAN:

perl -MCPAN -e’install Module::Name’

In your case, you might see what happens when you run:

perl -MCPAN -e’install DBD::Oracle’

HTH,

-FCOn 8/29/06, Chip Mefford cmefford@eruditium.org wrote:

Attempted to install 3.6.0 on Centos 4.3 (up to date as of this am)
I’ve been trying for a few weeks, on and off to get this working.

Finally gave up trying to resolve seemingly endless dependencies
and hunted around for a rpm based (yum preferrably) based install.

Finding Request Tracker Wiki I was
pleased, and followed the instructions (to the letter, after failing
many times to do it ‘my way’)

I die at;

Error: Missing Dependency: perl(DBD::Oracle) is needed by package
perl-DBIx-SearchBuilder

sigh,
Apparently, satisfying this dependency is pretty endless and
more or less requires an Oracle installation.

I don’t want Oracle, don’t even particularly like Oracle.

I emailed Paulo Matos a couple of weeks ago, and no response to
date.

No joy.

Suggestions?

Thanks kindly in advance,
–chipper

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Chip Mefford wrote:

Attempted to install 3.6.0 on Centos 4.3 (up to date as of this am)
I’ve been trying for a few weeks, on and off to get this working.

Finally gave up trying to resolve seemingly endless dependencies
and hunted around for a rpm based (yum preferrably) based install.

Finding Request Tracker Wiki I was
pleased, and followed the instructions (to the letter, after failing
many times to do it ‘my way’)

I die at;

Error: Missing Dependency: perl(DBD::Oracle) is needed by package
perl-DBIx-SearchBuilder

sigh,
Apparently, satisfying this dependency is pretty endless and
more or less requires an Oracle installation.

I don’t want Oracle, don’t even particularly like Oracle.

I emailed Paulo Matos a couple of weeks ago, and no response to
date.

I’m running RT just fine off CentOS, and have been for over a year. I
checked my Perl installation and I too have that module installed. It’s
just a Perl module though, and so installing that doesn’t mean you need
to install an Oracle database. I’m running this off a Postgresql
database, also I installed everything manually and have never had to do
anything strange other than maybe force a few Perl modules to load here
and there. Sometimes Perl installs through CPAN can be a pain and you
have to force something.

Just my experience with CentOS and RT here, so I’m not sure what you
could be doing differently, but I would just load the Perl module if it
needs it. It’s not going to hurt anything.

[root@myrt ~]# slocate DBD/Oracle
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/DBIx/DBSchema/DBD/Oracle.pm

Worst case is that it’s doing what mine is doing, and just sitting there
doing nothing. Just my two cents…

Max

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Ole Craig wrote:> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 09:33 -0400, Chip Mefford wrote:

Attempted to install 3.6.0 on Centos 4.3 (up to date as of this am)
I’ve been trying for a few weeks, on and off to get this working.

[…]

Chip -

I’ve been running 3.6.0 on CentOS 4.3 without too many troubles, after
perusing the RHEL4 and fedora 4 install guides at
Request Tracker Wiki and

Request Tracker Wiki

(I stuck mostly to the former; I’m using FastCGI and the setup process
for 3.6 is basically the same.) SNIP

Well Ole;

(and all others who helpfully replied)

Thanks kindly for all the encouragement,

I scrapped the RPM/Yum install, knuckled down, and with the
assistance of those provided urls, as well as more digging
in the wiki, and some head/desk pounding. Have all dependencies
satisfied, 3.6.0 installed, and am now configuring.
Even learned some stuff along the way!

So, thanks for the hopeful words, they were a big help!

take care
–chipper