Red hat 8.0

[John Abreau]

On 25 Dec 2002, Paul Iadonisi wrote:

>   However, just to clear up a point, Red Hat switched from Gnome 1.4 to
> Gnome 2.0 in Red Hat 8.0 and, to the best of my knowledge, there *is no*
> gui for switching window managers in Gnome 2.0.  The good news is that I
> read one of the Gnome summaries not long ago and there is apparently a
> new window manager switcher gui in the works for Gnome 2.2.

I didn't intend that as a slam against Redhat, actually, I was just 
venting a bit at one of the rare instances where I had a problem with 
their distribution. This metacity issue and the CPAN/apache2 problem have 
been aggravating lately, compounded by the loss of my Redhat 7.3 machine 
to a fried motherboard. 

The CPAN issue has to do with Redhat 8.0 using apache2 and a beta of 
mod_perl2. I've been depending on RequestTracker, a helpdesk manager that 
sits on top of a large number of perl modules, and when I try to install 
it under 8.0, it chokes in the middle of pulling over its dependencies via 
CPAN. The problem isn't with RequestTracker, of course; I run into the 
same problem when I try to install the necessary modules by hand, whether 
through CPAN or directly from the tarballs. 

I know I could always just nuke apache2 and downgrade to an older version 
of apache and mod_perl, but that kind of defeats the whole point of 
installing the latest version of the distribution. 

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