Well, Todd, since you gave me temporary access to your account, I
checked out your Ringlink installation, and the explanations weren't
more exciting than:
1) The files had not been uploaded in ASCII transfer mode (or the
conversion from Windows end-of-line characters (CRLF) to Unix
ditto (LF), which is the whole point with "ASCII transfer mode",
had failed). I do recommend that you find out what went wrong in
this respect.
2) Before creating the language databases out from the *.po files,
Ringlink selects a method for doing it. First it checks whether
the GNU gdbm library is available, and since it found the file
GDBM_File.pm on the server, it had good reasons to believe that
the GNU gdbm library is available *and* properly installed...
Obviously it's not, and that's why langinstall.pl hanged.
(If your web host's attitude is that you are "on your own" with
script installations, I'd suggest that you make it clear to them
that they should be more careful when setting up the system - or
else there are many other hosts out there...)
Anyway, the solution for compensating this sin of omission is
the change in rlconfig.pm that I first suggested, which makes
Ringlink try another method first.
It seems to work now.
Good luck with your Ringlink installation!
/ Gunnar