--- "Joseph L. Casale" jcasale@ActiveNetwerx.com wrote:

I enabled rpmforge on a fresh install as per the centos wiki with priorities and attempted to execute 'yum install perl-Digest-Perl-MD5' and received the following:

[root@test ~]# yum install perl-Digest-Perl-MD5 Loading "installonlyn" plugin Loading "priorities" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files 241 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package perl-Digest-Perl-MD5.noarch 0:1.8-1.el5.rf set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/false for package: perl-Digest-Perl-MD5 --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/false is needed by package perl-Digest-Perl-MD5

How do I resolve this?

Joe,

Sure the SPEC is broken since the dependency is on a binary file from package coreutils, rather than another RPM.

However, you are using a Cadillac OS (Linux) which includes a C-compiler and has as part of its core perl the perl module Digest::MD5.

------------- snip Digest-Perl-MD5 disclaimer ------- DISCLAIMER This is not an interface (like "Digest::MD5") but a Perl implementation of MD5. It is written in perl only and because of this it is slow but it works without C-Code. You should use "Digest::MD5" instead of this module if it is available. This module is only usefull for

computers where you cannot install "Digest::MD5" (e.g. lack of a C-Compiler)

encrypting only small amounts of data (less than one million bytes). I use it to hash passwords.

educational purposes ----------------- end snip -------------

I have good news for you. This is one time where its OK to use CPAN!! We give you permission.