Surviving Perl module depency hell with Arch Linux
So you’re running Arch Linux and trying to install a piece of software that depends on lots and lots of Perl modules, and you want install them cleanly using pacman.
pacpan is the key. If a module has an existing package, it will install it. Otherwise it will build it from CPAN. It also builds packages for the depencies. Use like this:
pacpan HTML::Mason
./build_cpan
Installing Vista in VirtualBox
When installing Vista in VirtualBox, if you encounter error “Windows installation has encountered an error and must be restarted.” after entering product key, partition the hard drive first.
Read this blog post for instructions: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikekol/archive/2005/12/20/506170.aspx
