On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 05:00, Clint Harshaw wrote: > Hi all! > I have a fresh installation of Mandrake 10 Official, and need help to > get the last piece of the desktop in order. I need CPAN to get Perl > modules installed. When I su to root and execute the command: > > perl -MCPAN -e shell > > and let it do the automatic configuration, I run into an error when I > try to install a module. There is a config.h file that CPAN can't find > -- and I can't find it either. > > When I do o conf, there is nothing in the section for makepl_arg. I > read online > (http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Programming/Installing_and_Using_CPAN.html) > that this is critical and related to my error, but I don't know how to > resolve it on this freshly installed Mandrake 10 system. > > For instance, the site tells me that I should do this: > cpan> makepl_arg: LIB=/path/to/my/site_perl > > but I don't know what Mandrake 10's /path/to/my/site_perl should be. > > Can you please guide me through a newbie configuration of CPAN to fix > this error? > > Thanks very much, > Clint
I"m on 10.0 OE; I've not had a problem installing any of the perl modules - then again, I installed everything related to perl from the beginning; what you need to do is be a bit more specific; what happens when you first run: perl -MCPAN -e shell ??? And if you get to the command line shell whilst in perl, what happens when you try something like: cpan> install IO::Stringy ? Do you get any types of errors? If anything, you could uninstall perl and then reinstall it - or, like me, urpmi everything that has anything to do with perl and then try again... Oh, also, check your /etc/ld.so.conf and make sure that all the lib paths are setup there - and even if they are, run ldconfig -v from the terminal as root to make sure the lib cache is rebuilt. stephen kuhn - proprietor __________________________________________________________________ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __________________________________________________________________ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __________________________________________________________________ Certified virus-free since we don't use Microsoft products Ballistophobia: Fear of bullets; Otophobia: Fear of opening one's eyes. Peccatophobia: Fear of sinning. Taphephobia: Fear of being buried alive. Sitophobia: Fear of food. Trichophobbia: Fear of hair. Vestiphobia: Fear of clothing.
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