A few problems with installing perl5...

Doug Wyatt dwyatt@sunflower.com
Sun Oct 1 22:19:00 GMT 2000


Presumably you got the perl rpm from either < http://cygwin-rpm.sourceforge.net/ >
or < http://cygwin.cjb.net/ >.  At the bottom of each of those pages is a 'mailto'
link for contacting the maintainer <rebum@cygwin.cjb.net> of those rpm packages.
The maintainer would seem to be the best qualified source of expertise on those
packages.

Did you try the instructions for just expanding the rpm using the rpm browser?

Alternatively, there is an easy-to-install version of Perl-5.6.0 at
       ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/
[in]  porters/Wilson_Charles_S/V1.1/perl-5.6.0

Perhaps you could try that.  I think that's what most Cygwin users install.

Regards,
Doug Wyatt

> Well..... Chuck, right here: http://cygwin-rpm.sourceforge.net/
> 
> If anyone has any actual help to provide besides message board ethics, I'd be most thankful. I'm running cygwin on top of win98 by the way. 
>  
> ------Original Message------
> From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
> To: luip <luip@mad.scientist.com>
> Sent: October 2, 2000 4:18:03 AM GMT
> Subject: Re: A few problems with installing perl5...
> 
> 
> So, you are installing a perl rpm.  Who provided it?  Neither perl nor
> rpm are part of the default cygwin install.  You really should seek help
> first from whomever provided the packages you are using.  No one on this
> list knows what funky things some random packager 'out there on the net'
> did, in order to provide a perl rpm.
> 
> --Chuck
> 
> 
> luip wrote:
> > 
> > When I tried installing perl I got this after a load of "group None does not exist - using root" vomit:
> > 
> > unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic
> > 0 [main] RPM 1028 handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
> > 1402 [main] RPM 1028 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to RPM.EXE.stackdump
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > 
> > I ran: rpm -i --ignoreos perl-5.6.0-cygwin1.1.rpm
> > 
> > Also ran rpm with the verbose switch and nothing seemed wrong, until rpm got done creating things & started the preinstall script.
> > 
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