[LON-CAPA-admin] Install 2.2.2 on Suse 9.3

[Stuart Peter Raeburn]

Todd, 

You need a customized version of HTML-Parser.  The LON-CAPA repository 
contains versions built for SuSE 9.3 for both 32 bit and 64 bit. 

32 bit
http://install.loncapa.org/suse/9.3/RPMS/i386/perl-HTML-Parser-3.45-9.0.suse 
93.lc.i386.rpm 

64 bit
http://install.loncapa.org/suse/9.3/RPMS/x86_64/perl-HTML-Parser-3.45-9.0.su 
se93.lc.x86_64.rpm 

If you have yast configured to use the LON-CAPA repository as a software 
source you should be able to use yast to select which of the available 
versions of HTML-Parser to use (there will be one version from the standard 
distro source, and one from the LON-CAPA source). 

Alternatively you could use wget to download the appropriate LON-CAPA rpm 
packages and use the rpm command to downgrade from the current package to 
the LON-CAPA rpm. 

For the record: some information about how this is handled in SuSE 10.1 and 
Fedora: 

A choice between version types is not required for SuSE 10.1, because in 
that case LONCAPA-prerequisites refers to perl-HTML-Parser_loncapa instead 
of perl-HTML-Parser. (For SuSE 10.1 the customized version of HTML-Parser 
used by LON-CAPA has been named differently to differentiate it from the 
HTML -Parser package maintained in the standard SuSE 0.1 distro.)  In the 
case of Fedora distributions a choice does not need to be made either 
because when yum is used to update packages it honors the requirement 
specified in the FC* LONCAPA-repository rpm packages to always use a 
specific version of HTML-Parser. 

Stuart Raeburn
MSU LON-CAPA group 

Todd Ruskell writes: 

> Don't ask why not 10.1 unless it would really help.  After running UPDATE, 
> the WARNINGS file has: 
> 
> **** ERROR: HTML::Parser is not working properly.
>               You are using version 3.45.  For test 2 it returned
>               "T{<img a="b" "='"' c=d}T{ />}" 
> 
> Any ideas?  I *thought* I updated everything properly, but I've had those 
> kinds of erroneous thoughts before. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Todd
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