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

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On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 07:31:24PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> 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).


FWIW, I've been running the unstable dist in a *production* environment
for many years now.  My experience is that support at the bleeding edge
is far, far, far better than at the "stable" point.

But we do have a system where our dev machines get updated weekly and
our production machines "irregularly" - at some sort of semi stable
point - but still with the unstable dist - when we feel confident to
push everything to production.

Your question is more properly a topic for discussion on a debian
list than on this one.  :-)

Your other alternative is dh-make-perl.

best,
cfm



> 
> 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
> 
> 
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