[Catalyst] installing Catalyst on Debian 3.1 Stable (Sarge) using Apt

[David Christensen]

catalyst:

I'm a Catalyst newbie who would like to try out Catalyst on my Debian 3.1 Stable
(Sarge) machine.  I'd prefer using the Apt package management system rather than
going to CPAN or source (I've damaged machines by going outside their intended
package management system, so I now avoid that).


Looking at:

    http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/HowToGet

I modified /etc/apt/sources.list:

    root at p166v:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
    # $Id: sources.list,v 1.5 2005/09/04 19:27:13 dpchrist Exp $

    deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main
    deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main

    deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

    ##### http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/HowToGet
    deb http://pkg-catalyst.alioth.debian.org/ binary/
    deb-src http://pkg-catalyst.alioth.debian.org/ source/

and then updated my apt cache.  Updating again:

    root at p166v:~# apt-get update
    Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
    Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release
    Hit http://pkg-catalyst.alioth.debian.org binary/ Packages
    Ign http://pkg-catalyst.alioth.debian.org binary/ Release
    Hit http://pkg-catalyst.alioth.debian.org source/ Sources
    Ign http://pkg-catalyst.alioth.debian.org source/ Release
    Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
    Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Release
    Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Sources
    Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Release
    Reading Package Lists... Done

and searching my apt cache:

    root at p166v:~# apt-cache search catalyst
    libcatalyst-engine-server-perl - Catalyst Server Engine
    libcatalyst-plugin-fillinform-perl - FillInForm for Catalyst
    libcatalyst-plugin-session-fastmmap-perl - FastMmap sessions for Catalyst
    libcatalyst-plugin-static-perl - Serve static files with Catalyst
    libcatalyst-model-cdbi-sweet-perl - Making sweet things sweeter
    libcatalyst-plugin-session-flex-perl - Apache::Flex sessions for Catalyst
    libcatalyst-plugin-prototype-perl - Catalyst plugin for Prototype
    libhtml-prototype-perl - Generate HTML and Javascript for the Prototype
library
    libcatalyst-helper-controller-scaffold-perl - Helper for Scaffolding
    libcatalyst-view-micromason-perl - Catalyst MicroMason View Class
    libcatalyst-engine-http-poe-perl - Catalyst HTTP POE Engine

(note that the above list is shorter than the list posted at
http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/HowToGet.)


Looking at what's available to my machine, nothing appears to be the "top level"
package (libcatalyst-perl_5.23-1_all.deb?).  Trying to install the static file
plug-in anyway:

    root at p166v:~# apt-get install libcatalyst-plugin-static-perl
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    or been moved out of Incoming.

    Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely t
hat
    the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
    that package should be filed.
    The following information may help to resolve the situation:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
      libcatalyst-plugin-static-perl: Depends: libcatalyst-perl but it i
s not installable
    E: Broken packages


It appears that some packages are missing from
http://pkg-catalyst.alioth.debian.org/.


I also tried searching Debian packages for Catalyst, but came up empty:

 
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=catalyst&searchmode=s
earchfiles&case=insensitive&version=stable&arch=i386

 
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=catalyst&searchmode=s
earchfiles&case=insensitive&version=testing&arch=i386

 
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=catalyst&searchmode=s
earchfiles&case=insensitive&version=unstable&arch=i386


STFW yielded some interesting stuff, but no direct hits:

 
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=debian+catalyst&num=100&hl=en&btnG=Google+Sear
ch&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i
&as_sitesearch=&safe=images

    http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-catalyst/

    http://packages.debian.org/testing/perl/libcatalyst-modules-perl

    http://www.debian.org/consultants/catalyst



Any suggestions?


TIA,

David