On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 21:54 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > There has been some very good work by a few people over in k12osn for > setting up a SAMBA PDC/BDC environment. > > Thing is their scripts are for Fedora core 3. > > There are instructions on how to get things to go step by step instead > of use the Fedora-based script, so I gave it a try. > > Step 1 is to get apt running and everything current. I assumed yum would > do instead. > > step 2 has: > > *Installing CPAN bundles > > * > > Now we need to make sure our perl modules are all there and up to date. > We can do this easily by > > Running > > perl -MCPAN -e –shell > > Let it run. Answer “no” when it asks about Manual configuration. > > Once it stops you'll be at the cpan prompt....type > > install Bundle::CPAN > > this will install many perl modules for you. Answer “yes” to any > dependency questions. When you get > > to the question about “libnet”....answer “no”. Once you are > finished...hit “enter” to exit....it'll run for a > > few seconds more and then bring you back to the cpan prompt. For good > measure let's type > > install Net::LDAP (it should be up to date) > > ======================================= > Well I had many messages from the perl -MCPAN and install Bundle::CPAN > and the install Net::LDAP just failed. > > Being how this is rather foreign to me, how do I figure out what really > went wrong and how to get it right? ---- yum install perl-Net-LDAP It's easier that way and you automatically get updates. Craig