Hi Bruce and Carlo,
    That was fast! Thanks a lot, IT WORKED. I could never have thought about it by myself. Needless to say, this mailing list has become amazingly useful for people like me.

Bruce: Thanks for your nice gesture. I have nicely settled down in Princeton. I will see you at APS whenever I come next. Also, I am now going to work on installing EASE, which I have heard is non-trivial (never done it myself before, Shelly made it work on my previous computer and had Igor as a live Tech Support). So I might have more questions for you on that.  I hope, I won't need to bother you much.

BTW, with due respect to Debian and Ubuntu, FC 5 is a really sweet and user friendly platform.

Cheers,
Bhoopesh


On 9/11/06, Bruce Ravel <bravel@anl.gov> wrote:

Boopesh,

I just managed to reproduce your error on my computer and attempted to apply
my suggestion:

> Here is my suggestion.
>
> 1. cd down into 0CPAN/Chemistry-Elements-1.01/ in the source code
>       tarball.
>   2. do the "perl Makefile.PL; make; make install" incantation for
>       Chemistry::Elements
> 3. cd back up to the main directory and try building all of horae again
> with Chemistry::Elements installed

That's not quite right.  Try this:

    1. cd down into 0CPAN/Chemistry-Elements-1.01/ in the source code
        tarball.

** 2.  rm -rf blib Makefile pm_to_blib **

    3. do the "perl Makefile.PL; make; make install" incantation for
        Chemistry::Elements
    4. cd back up to the main directory and try building all of horae again
      with Chemistry::Elements installed

If you don't clean up some of the detritus from the earlier attempt to get
this installed, then step 3 does not work correctly.


And, in response to Carlo's comment: this underscores a significant advantage
to the debian approach of package management.  Boopesh's problem would not
have happened on a debian system.  I am, however, compelled to try to provide
system-agnostic build scripts in my perl packages.  That said, I could use the
CPAN module to resolve horae's requirements.  That, however, would require
building as root and having the user correctly configure the CPAN.pm module.
That configuration isn't a trivial chore even for me!

B

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