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Steven Levine:
Hansi,

The ideas proposed by the others may get you where you want to go.  Depending on your skills, it should be possible to rework the .wis file to install the packages.  If it were me, I would extract the packages by hand using wic.exe and use the CREATEOBJECT statements in .wis file as a guide to creating the Desktop objects.

The package is rather old - circa 2014.  It's unknown how it compares to Phil Harvey's current version at https://exiftool.org.

It's appears that the library itself is still Perl, so it might be worthwhile to try to use the current sources.

Hansi:
Hi,

thanks for all your suggestions so far.
I also guess, that the WPI tool only cares for other WPI installations, but not for RPM packages.
There are some Perl RPMs on my system, the one named "Perl" is on version 5.16.1-9.
Dave's suggestion to install Paul's Perl 5.8.8 WPI package was my first idea but it is not available (for me) anywhere.

So there seems no other way as to inspect the WPI package in its details, as Lars already suggested in the German OS/2 forum.
I'm not familiar with this and I will try to follow Steven's advice. This will take some time and whenever I succeed I will report it here.

Hansi



Pete:
Hi Hansi

Have you asked Paul if he has a copy of the Perl 5.8.8 WPI package archived? - https://os2ports.smedley.id.au/?page_id=8


Regards

Pete

Lars:
I think that would just ask for desaster if you already have Perl installed via YUM/RPM.

You would have an outdated Perl installed via WarpIn alongside an up-to-date installation via YUM/RPM without really knowing what is being used by the EXIF tool.

The best way would be to remove the idiotic dependency in the WIS script. Unfortunately, I have no time to do it and for the time being, Steve's suggestion is likely the way to go forward.

Martin Iturbide:
Hello

Sorry to confuse more the issue.
Are there two things, the ExifTool Perl Module, and the ExifTool command line tool? Does both belong to the same project?

Because "EXIFtool_2-2.zip" (2005) is from Marcel Mueller and it is a .exe binary with it's source code.
ExifTool Perl Module (ExifTool_Perl_9-46.wpi) (2014) I have no idea how to use it.

Regards

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