--- doc/Attic/how_to_install_on_RedHat7.2.txt	2002/02/04 11:13:41	1.1
+++ doc/Attic/how_to_install_on_RedHat7.2.txt	2002/02/28 01:37:16	1.2
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-$Id: how_to_install_on_RedHat7.2.txt,v 1.1 2002/02/04 11:13:41 matthew Exp $
+$Id: how_to_install_on_RedHat7.2.txt,v 1.2 2002/02/28 01:37:16 harris41 Exp $
+
+(Alternative approach to perl module-ing is at end...)
 
 Install RedHat 7.2 on your system.  Use a 'custom' install and include
 the web and sql servers along with any others you need or desire.
@@ -151,3 +153,112 @@ gnuplot               gnuplot-3.7.1-5.i3
      gif support compiled in and dynamically generated plots will fail!
 libgd                 libgd-1.3-4.i386.rpm            
      Required by gnuplot
+
+
+==================================================================
+Alternative Approaches
+
+Regarding: Perl modules
+As noted above, it is possible to install then redirect
+the files with LON-CAPA-systemperl.  Another approach
+is to use loncom/build/system_dependencies/perltest.pl
+combined with the 30+ perl specific rpms that RedHat is
+now releasing with version 7.*.
+
+* need to fix Cookie.pm as noted above
+
+ncftpget ftp://mirror.pa.msu.edu/linux/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/*perl*.rpm
+And do comparisons with output from
+perl CVS:loncom/build/system_dependencies/perltest.pl
+
+Here is what is found from this approach:
+
+Already installed on RedHat 7.2 by default:
+groff-perl-1.17.2-3.i386.rpm
+mod_perl-1.24_01-3.i386.rpm
+perl-DateManip-5.39-5.noarch.rpm
+perl-Digest-MD5-2.13-1.i386.rpm
+perl-File-MMagic-1.06-2.i386.rpm
+perl-HTML-Parser-3.25-2.i386.rpm
+perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-3.i386.rpm
+perl-MIME-Base64-2.12-6.i386.rpm
+perl-NKF-1.71-2.i386.rpm
+perl-Parse-Yapp-1.04-3.noarch.rpm
+perl-SGMLSpm-1.03ii-4.noarch.rpm
+perl-Storable-0.6.11-6.i386.rpm
+perl-Text-Kakasi-1.04-4.i386.rpm
+perl-URI-1.12-5.noarch.rpm
+perl-XML-Dumper-0.4-5.noarch.rpm
+perl-XML-Encoding-1.01-2.noarch.rpm
+perl-XML-Grove-0.46alpha-3.noarch.rpm
+perl-XML-Parser-2.30-7.i386.rpm
+perl-XML-Twig-2.02-2.noarch.rpm
+perl-libnet-1.0703-6.noarch.rpm
+perl-libwww-perl-5.53-3.noarch.rpm
+perl-libxml-enno-1.02-5.noarch.rpm
+perl-libxml-perl-0.07-5.noarch.rpm
+
+New installations needed:
+rpm -Uvh mysql-3.23.41-1.i386.rpm 
+rpm -Uvh perl-DBD-MySQL-1.2216-4.i386.rpm
+rpm -Uvh perl-DBI-1.18-1.i386.rpm 
+
+Still need:
+wget http://www.linuxjar.com/CPAN/authors/id/R/RK/RKOBES/Math-FFT-0.25.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/MVERB/GDTextUtil-0.80.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/W/WA/WADG/GDGraph3d-0.56.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/MVERB/GDGraph-1.33.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RK/RKOBES/Math-Cephes-0.25.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GR/GROMMEL/Math-Random-0.64.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/GD/GD-Barcode-1.13.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/GD/GD-1.33.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/N/NE/NEDKONZ/Algorithm-Diff-1.11a.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/HTML-Tree-3.11.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/MailTools-1.15.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/E/ER/ERYQ/MIME-tools-BETA-5.503.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/E/EB/EBOHLMAN/Text-Query-Advanced-0.05.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/E/EB/EBOHLMAN/Text-Query-0.07.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/E/EB/EBOHLMAN/Text-Query-Simple-0.03.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JH/JHORWITZ/Krb4-1.1.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DP/DPARIS/Crypt-DES-2.03.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DP/DPARIS/Crypt-IDEA-1.01.tar.gz
+wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SE/SEYN/Safe-Hole-0.08.tar.gz
+
+Algorithm-Diff
+perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; sudo make install
+Crypt-DES
+perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; sudo make install
+Crypt-IDEA (some swig problems...delay)
+GD
+perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; sudo make install
+GD-Barcode
+perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; sudo make install
+GDGraph (need to do GDTextUtil first so)
+GDTextUtil
+perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; sudo make install
+GDGraph (need to do GDTextUtil first so)
+perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; sudo make install
+Krb4 (need to get athena kerberos...delay)
+MailTools
+perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; sudo make install
+Math-Cephes
+perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; sudo make install
+Math-Random
+perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; sudo make install
+Safe-Hole
+perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; sudo make install
+Text-Query
+perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; sudo make install
+Text-Query-Advanced
+perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; sudo make install
+Text-Query-Simple
+perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; sudo make install
+
+So last problems...
+Crypt-IDEA and Krb4
+
+Crypt-IDEA (problems with 5.6.0 namespace... so use pollute flag)
+perl Makefile.PL POLLUTE=1; make; make test; sudo make install
+Krb4
+sudo rpm -Uvh LON-CAPA-krb4-3.1-1.i386.rpm
+perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; sudo make install