Redhat – Perl CGI.pm module wildly out-of-date on RedHat/CentOS 5

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I am trying to install all my Perl modules from RPM (using rpmforge.net), instead of just acquiring them from CPAN.

My ultimate goal is to get Bugzilla 3.4.4 running. It requires CGI.pm 3.21 or later; the perl package on RHEL5 (5.8.8) comes with CGI.pm 3.15, and it doesn't appear that any of the 3rd-party package repositories package it seperately (there is no longer a perl-CGI RPM for Red Hat: since RH9, it appears!)

Is there a recommended solution?

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./install-module.pl CGI in your Bugzilla install folder will install a Bugzilla-local copy of the latest CGI.pm (under <bugzilla-directory>/lib. This wont affect your yum managed packages at all.

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It might be worth trying to install from an RPM instead of via CPAN:

yum install perl-DBD-mysql

This should resolve any missing dependencies that you have.

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Why are you installing Bugzilla manually? ;-)

I don't have an Ubuntu box to check from, but there's a Bugzilla package in Debian (bugzilla3), so I'm guessing it's available, even if you need to enable the Universe. Have you tried using that? Also, the fact that it exists out there tells me that all required Perl modules are packaged for Ubuntu, although again, you might have to enable the Universe repository.

Trying to mix Distribution provided perl modules with CPAN can get kinda hairy, if you're not careful. I have a pretty strong preference for keeping them completely separate for all but the most simple cases (by separate, I mean I install a completely new and separate Perl and CPAN installation if I need crazy stuff that's not available via APT repositories, and then use that separate installation just for the application(s) I installed it for).

If I were you, I'd start by getting rid of all the CPAN installed stuff, and try:

sudo aptitude install bugzilla3

See if that does the trick for you.

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