Item14733: Installation of Foswiki module dependencies

While attempting to upgrade FlexFormPlugin

I received a notice:

Installing FlexFormPlugin
Loading package installer

fetching FlexFormPlugin installer from http://foswiki.org/pub/Extensions/...
Dependency Report for FlexFormPlugin ...

MISSING

Foswiki::Plugins::MultiLingualPlugin version >=3.00 required -- perl module is not installed - Optional - Optional dependency, will not be automatically installed

Cpan has never heard of this prl module.

cpan[3]> install Foswiki::Plugins::MultiLingualPlugin                           
Warning: Cannot install Foswiki::Plugins::MultiLingualPlugin, don't know what it is.
Try the command

    i /Foswiki::Plugins::MultiLingualPlugin/

to find objects with matching identifiers.

cpan[4]> i /Foswiki::Plugins::MultiLingualPlugin/                               
No objects found of any type for argument /Foswiki::Plugins::MultiLingualPlugin/

cpan[5]> install Foswiki::Plugins                                               
Warning: Cannot install Foswiki::Plugins, don't know what it is.
Try the command

    i /Foswiki::Plugins/

to find objects with matching identifiers.

insta                                                                           cpan[6]> install Foswiki
Warning: Cannot install Foswiki, don't know what it is.
Try the command

    i /Foswiki/

to find objects with matching identifiers.

I did a web search and found Support/MultiLingualPlugin, so apparently, what it really wants, is for me to install an extension.

If an extension requires (or wants) another extension, that's what the notice should should say. Don;t tell me to installa Perl module if I'm expected to install an extension, especially if cpan doesn;t recognize the module!

-- VickiBrown - 18 Jun 2018

Extensions.MultiLingualPlugin is an optional dependency. Dunno why it says "missing dependency".

None of our plugins is installable via Cpan. They are not hosted there. Did you try the Foswiki installer to get it?

-- MichaelDaum - 18 Jun 2018

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