[Catalyst] Is it normal to have lots of trouble installing catalyst?

[Simon Wilcox]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Bernard FRIT wrote:

> I was unable to install Catalyst on an Ubuntu laptop, first because
> Unbuntu's perl was threaded perl and didn't work for some of the
> packages I use (Ima::DBI I think) and then because of the
> inconsistency of cpan's depencies.

That was only a warning. I have Catalyst running on Ubuntu quite happily.

DBI warns about threads when it installs but unless you're actually using
threads you'll be quite OK. There's a slight performance overhead in
running a threaded perl but for development you won't notice it.

Simon.

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