tweking perl dependencies in debian

wanted to install dkimproxy on a debian server and was happy to find that the package existed. however, installing this package would have altered quite a lot of the perl installation - including many removes (due to dependency errors…); after some manual tweaking of aptitude, apt-get, and dpkg i finally, realized that this won’t work…

but then i found: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/78 - and started with:

dh-make-perl Mail-DKIM-0.32/

…but found that more modules were needed:

dh-make-perl –cpan Crypt::OpenSSL::Random –build
dh-make-perl –cpan Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA –build
dh-make-perl –cpan Crypt::OpenSSL::Bignum –build

installation is done via regular dpkg -i. and afterwards:

sudo aptitude install –without-recommends dkimproxy/testing

worked.

References:

  1. http://dkimproxy.sourceforge.net/
  2. http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html
  3. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuPrivacyGuardHowto (in case something like ‘running debsign failed’ comes up…)
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