How to solve dependency problem when install Squid on CentOS 5.5

Wed, Mar 9, 2011

If your server is running CentOS 5.5 and you are trying to install Squid, you might got this error:

Error: Missing Dependency: perl(URI::URL) is needed by package 7:squid-2.6.STABLE21-6.el5.x86_64 (base)

The solution for this problem is pretty simple: Download and install perl-URI from CentOS

cd /usr/src
wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.centos.org/5.5/os/x86_64/CentOS/perl-URI-1.35-3.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh perl-URI-1.35-3.noarch.rpm

Now you can use yum to install Squid as usual

yum install squid

Pretty simple, huh?