Re: Need some help on installing modules...

On Sun, January 16, 2011 5:29 pm, Levan, Jerry wrote: > Is doing a: > > sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell > > The standard way of preparing to install modules? > > Seems like root might only be needed for actual installation... Current versions of CPAN can be configured to request a sudo password at the

Re: Need some help on installing modules...

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 20:59, John Delacour wrote: > At 17:29 -0500 16/01/2011, Levan, Jerry wrote: > > >> Is doing a: >> >>    sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell >> >> The standard way of preparing to install modules? >> >> Seems like root might only be needed for actual installation... > > With sudo you

Re: Need some help on installing modules...

At 17:29 -0500 16/01/2011, Levan, Jerry wrote: Is doing a: sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell The standard way of preparing to install modules? Seems like root might only be needed for actual installation... With sudo you are superuser; that's quite good enough. I never do it that way. I just

Re: Need some help on installing modules...

On Jan 16, 2011, at 4:53 PM, John Delacour wrote: > At 11:13 -0500 16/01/2011, Levan, Jerry wrote: > >> I have an iPad and I have a Postgresql database on my home server. >> >> I have turned on the MacOS(client) VPN on the mac mini that I use >> as my home server and can access my home network

Re: Need some help on installing modules...

At 11:13 -0500 16/01/2011, Levan, Jerry wrote: I have an iPad and I have a Postgresql database on my home server. I have turned on the MacOS(client) VPN on the mac mini that I use as my home server and can access my home network in a secure fashion... It turns out that once upon a time I wrote

Need some help on installing modules...

Hi, It has been about 12 years since I have had to think about Perl I have an iPad and I have a Postgresql database on my home server. I have turned on the MacOS(client) VPN on the mac mini that I use as my home server and can access my home network in a secure fashion... I would like to be

Re: macports installing modules

Hi Noah, On Mar 12, 2009, at 8:39 PM, Noah wrote: I've just installed perl5.8 from macports. is there any way to quickly migrate all the modules installed as part of my apple perl installation? I've never used MacPorts before, but this thread on PerlMonks might be helpful on the subject of

macports installing modules

Hi tehre, I've just installed perl5.8 from macports. is there any way to quickly migrate all the modules installed as part of my apple perl installation? Cheers, Noah

Re: Problems installing modules

On Dec 5, 2004, at 6:56 AM, William Ross wrote: On 5 Dec 2004, at 09:07, Marek Stepanek wrote: * installing blib/man1 to ?~name * with PERL_INSTALL_ROOT '' * mkpath(?~name) mkdir ?~name: Invalid argument at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 115 make: *** [pure_site_install] Error

Re:Problems installing modules

On 05/12/2004 13:56, "William Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Dec 2004, at 09:07, Marek Stepanek wrote: > >> * installing blib/man1 to ?~name >> * with PERL_INSTALL_ROOT '' >> * mkpath(?~name) >> mkdir ?~name: Invalid argument at >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 115

Re: Problems installing modules

On 5 Dec 2004, at 09:07, Marek Stepanek wrote: * installing blib/man1 to ?~name * with PERL_INSTALL_ROOT '' * mkpath(?~name) mkdir ?~name: Invalid argument at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 115 make: *** [pure_site_install] Error 255 your perl configuration is slightly broken.

Re:Problems installing modules

On 05/12/2004 10:53, "Sherm Pendley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 5, 2004, at 4:07 AM, Marek Stepanek wrote: > >> Is this clear to you, what that means ? Probably the "perl"-link I put >> in >> /usr/bin/ pointing /usr/local/bin/ has not the right rights ? > > That doesn't make any sense.

Re: Problems installing modules

On Dec 5, 2004, at 4:07 AM, Marek Stepanek wrote: Is this clear to you, what that means ? Probably the "perl"-link I put in /usr/bin/ pointing /usr/local/bin/ has not the right rights ? That doesn't make any sense. The install script is running, and reporting an error in mkpath(). If the permissi

Re:Problems installing modules

On 05/12/2004 03:56, "William Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4 Dec 2004, at 20:21, Marek Stepanek wrote: > >> On 04/12/2004 12:57, "William Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On 3 Dec 2004, at 21:25, Marek Stepanek wrote: >>> Please ! Nobody can help me out ? I still get these

Re: Problems installing modules

On 4 Dec 2004, at 20:21, Marek Stepanek wrote: On 04/12/2004 12:57, "William Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3 Dec 2004, at 21:25, Marek Stepanek wrote: Please ! Nobody can help me out ? I still get these error messages, trying to install LWP : you are doing this as root, aren't you? only it lo

Re: Problems installing modules

On Dec 4, 2004, at 3:53 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: Do you get the same result if you try to install the module manually, outside of the CPAN shell? Oh, and along the same lines, do you get the same result when you install other modules? Sorry for so many questions, but it's basic Debugging 101 - n

Re: Problems installing modules

On Dec 3, 2004, at 4:25 PM, Marek Stepanek wrote: Please ! Nobody can help me out ? I still get these error messages, trying to install LWP : All tests successful. Files=41, Tests=778, 43 wallclock secs ( 6.39 cusr + 1.53 csys = 7.92 CPU) /usr/bin/make test -- OK Running make install mkdir ?

Re: Problems installing modules

On Dec 4, 2004, at 3:21 PM, Marek Stepanek wrote: perhaps the LWP reports errors, because the newest release of Perl is v5.8.6 and I have only v5.8.5 ? No. If that were the error, it would say that - "Requires Perl 5.8.6, only 5.8.5 found" or something similar. sherm-- Cocoa programming in Perl:

Re:Problems installing modules

On 04/12/2004 12:57, "William Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3 Dec 2004, at 21:25, Marek Stepanek wrote: > >> Please ! Nobody can help me out ? I still get these error messages, >> trying >> to install LWP : > > you are doing this as root, aren't you? > only it looks like you might not be

Re: Problems installing modules

On 3 Dec 2004, at 21:25, Marek Stepanek wrote: Please ! Nobody can help me out ? I still get these error messages, trying to install LWP : you are doing this as root, aren't you? only it looks like you might not be... will All tests successful. Files=41, Tests=778, 43 wallclock secs ( 6.39 cusr

Re:Problems installing modules

Please ! Nobody can help me out ? I still get these error messages, trying to install LWP : All tests successful. Files=41, Tests=778, 43 wallclock secs ( 6.39 cusr + 1.53 csys = 7.92 CPU) /usr/bin/make test -- OK Running make install mkdir ?~name: Invalid argument at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5

Re:Problems installing modules

On 29/11/2004 12:33, "Sherm Pendley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 29, 2004, at 4:38 AM, Marek Stepanek wrote: > >> I have problems updating or installing modules on my Perl I have >> installed >> in /usr/local/bin/ an Perl 5.8.5 > > What d

Re: Problems installing modules

On Nov 29, 2004, at 4:38 AM, Marek Stepanek wrote: I have problems updating or installing modules on my Perl I have installed in /usr/local/bin/ an Perl 5.8.5 What do you get from 'perl -V'? #perhaps I have to adapt this file or create one ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm ??? Do you have o

Problems installing modules

Hello Perlers, I have problems updating or installing modules on my Perl I have installed in /usr/local/bin/ an Perl 5.8.5 I have made an alias in /usr/bin lrwxr-xr-x1 root wheel 19B 17 Nov 14:08 perl -> /usr/local/bin/perl Installing for example LWP with cpan gives follow

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

On Jun 14, 2004, at 1:12 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: I'm curious - is reinstalling the OS a common troubleshooting technique for older MacOS versions? I'm a fairly recent switcher myself. I purchased my first Mac expressly to run Mac OS X DP4. Only if you feel you're in over your head ;-). Since I'

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

On Jun 15, 2004, at 6:30 AM, Ken Williams wrote: It looks to me like you've applied the following fix incorrectly: It's 'env LD_RUN_PATH=""', not 'LD_RUN_PATH="" env'. -Ken I think that that was before I had applied the fix. At any rate, I just took another look at t

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

On Jun 13, 2004, at 11:12 PM, Phil Calvert wrote: Well, that's a good point. After taking a look at the text output I think the first sign of trouble is here; cc1: warning: changing search order for system directory "/usr/local/include" cc1: warning: as it has already been specified as a non-s

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

On 2004.6.15, at 06:08 AM, Bill Stephenson wrote: On Jun 14, 2004, at 3:12 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: I'm curious - is reinstalling the OS a common troubleshooting technique for older MacOS versions? I'm a fairly recent switcher myself. I purchased my first Mac expressly to run Mac OS X DP4. Yes,

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

On Jun 14, 2004, at 3:12 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: I'm curious - is reinstalling the OS a common troubleshooting technique for older MacOS versions? I'm a fairly recent switcher myself. I purchased my first Mac expressly to run Mac OS X DP4. Yes, it certainly was for Systems 7-8. Clean System ins

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

On Jun 14, 2004, at 2:34 PM, Phil Calvert wrote: On Jun 13, 2004, at 9:53 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Jun 14, 2004, at 12:12 AM, Phil Calvert wrote: At this point, maybe the best thing would be to reinstall osX? I'm guessing you're a recent refugee from Windows? ;-) Sir, you wound me! ;-) I've neve

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

On Jun 14, 2004, at 1:34 PM, Phil Calvert wrote: At this point, maybe the best thing would be to reinstall osX? I'm guessing you're a recent refugee from Windows? ;-) Sir, you wound me! ;-) I've never used a windows for more than a hour without feeling ill. I will admit to being a long time system

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

On Jun 13, 2004, at 9:53 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Jun 14, 2004, at 12:12 AM, Phil Calvert wrote: ld: -undefined: unknown argument: dynamic_lookup I noticed in an older reply that you're using GCC 3.1, and you've upgraded to 10.3.4. If you upgraded from Jaguar (or earlier), and you haven't inst

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

On Jun 14, 2004, at 12:12 AM, Phil Calvert wrote: ld: -undefined: unknown argument: dynamic_lookup I noticed in an older reply that you're using GCC 3.1, and you've upgraded to 10.3.4. If you upgraded from Jaguar (or earlier), and you haven't installed Xcode yet, do that - you'll get the newer GC

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

On Jun 13, 2004, at 8:01 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Jun 13, 2004, at 3:45 PM, Phil Calvert wrote: and after quite a bit of text scolling by in the terminal ended with this; ... list of failed tests ... The tests you list all use prerequisite modules listed earlier in the Bundle. What were the re

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

On Jun 13, 2004, at 3:45 PM, Phil Calvert wrote: and after quite a bit of text scolling by in the terminal ended with this; ... list of failed tests ... The tests you list all use prerequisite modules listed earlier in the Bundle. What were the results from those installs? Those results would ha

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

On Jun 13, 2004, at 12:07 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Jun 13, 2004, at 2:32 PM, Phil Calvert wrote: LD_RUN_PATH="" MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib MD5.o -o blib/arch/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.bundle There are also some p

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

On Jun 13, 2004, at 2:32 PM, Phil Calvert wrote: LD_RUN_PATH="" MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib MD5.o -o blib/arch/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.bundle There are also some partial solutions out there, that tell you how to pat

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 11:49:10AM -0700, Phil Calvert wrote: > But when I type in this; > sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install "libwww-perl"' > I get this; > > Password: > CPAN: Storable loaded ok > Going to read /Users/philcalvert/.cpan/Metadata > Database was generated on Sun, 13 Jun 2004 02:36:54

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.4

On Jun 13, 2004, at 11:41 AM, Edward Moy wrote: Which compiler are you using? % cc -v The default for 10.3 is 3.3; I'm not sure if earlier versions of the compiler support -undefined dynamic_lookup. --- --- Edward Moy A

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

Hi, Thanks for the reply. On Jun 13, 2004, at 3:29 AM, David Cantrell wrote: Phil Calvert wrote: I been trying to do "hack no. 8" from the O'Reilly book "Spidering Hacks" but keep getting hung-up. I enter the line "sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install libwww-perl'" and things seem to go well for a while

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

On Jun 13, 2004, at 11:32 AM, Phil Calvert wrote: That gets me a bit father along (or at least I think it does, since there's quite a bit of activity) but then it hangs up with this; Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE" -DU32_ALIGNMENT_REQUIRED MD5.c cc1: warning: changing sea

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

On Jun 13, 2004, at 1:48 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Jun 13, 2004, at 1:45 AM, Phil Calvert wrote: I enter the line "sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install libwww-perl'" and things seem to go well for a while but then it gets stuck at: CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /Users/thatsme/.cpan/Metadata D

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

Phil Calvert wrote: > I been trying to do "hack no. 8" from the O'Reilly book "Spidering Hacks" but keep getting hung-up. > > I enter the line "sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install libwww-perl'" and things seem to go well for a while but then it gets stuck at: > > CPAN: Storable loaded ok > Going to read

Re: Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

On Jun 13, 2004, at 1:45 AM, Phil Calvert wrote: I enter the line "sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install libwww-perl'" and things seem to go well for a while but then it gets stuck at: CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /Users/thatsme/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:34:06

Installing modules on osX 10.3.3

Hi, I been trying to do "hack no. 8" from the O'Reilly book "Spidering Hacks" but keep getting hung-up. I enter the line "sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install libwww-perl'" and things seem to go well for a while but then it gets stuck at: CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /Users/thatsme/.cpan/Met

Re: Problems installing modules on OS X Panther

please forgive my top posting here, Stephan raised this on the beginner's mailing list and may not be aware that there is a a [EMAIL PROTECTED] list that may be better able to handle the detailed level of specifics. On Dec 9, 2003, at 1:37 AM, Stephan Hochhaus wrote: Hello list! I am starting to

Re: Installing Modules -- Success/Another question

On Sunday, August 11, 2002, at 07:19 PM, John Horner wrote: > The contents of the folder don't seem to contain the same kind of > configure file. They are: > > README > > any suggestions? Did you read the file named README? Does it say that "configure;make;make install" is the installatio

Installing Modules -- Success/Another question

Thanks to everyone for their help with installing, not in fact modules, but a C library which a module needed in order to run. Thanks particularly to Les Harris who provided the following incantation: tar xvfz .tar.gz cd ./configure make sudo make install which w

Re: Installing Modules

On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 08:12 , ellem wrote: [..] > Nothing against the Fink users or maintainers BUT LEARN how to do it > manually! Someday you will need the control and/or not be on a machine > with Fink. > > Do it with Fink == Free > Doing it Manually == Priceless [..] this is PRICEL

Re: Installing Modules

On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 01:03 AM, Les Harris wrote: > And then, voila, you have the expat library installed and XML::Parser will > run to its little heart's content on your machine. This assumes that you've downloaded and installed the OS X Developer tools, which include the cc compiler

Re: Installing Modules

On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 09:10 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote: > Oh, and one more thing. If the "manual" procedure for installing Expat > is too much for you, you might want to take a look at fink > (fink.sf.net). Fink can help download and install a variety of > precompiled applications and li

Re: Installing Modules

On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 04:03 AM, Les Harris wrote: > And then, voila, you have the expat library installed and XML::Parser > will > run to its little heart's content on your machine. Once you get to this point, use the cpan tool to install the XML::Simple module - it will figure out the

Re: Installing Modules

Gah its way too late for me to be trying to do this. Coherent thought processes are shutting down. > tar xvfz expat-1.95.4.tar.gz > cd expat-1.95.4 Instead of the following line > ../configure Do this instead: ./configure Just one dot, not two, and then do the rest. Les [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installing Modules

> * Expat isn't even a Perl Module at all, it's some scary thing > with files ending in .h and .c -- what is is, a C binary? Okay! Welcome to the wonderful world of open source software :) What all that nonsense is, is the sourcecode for the expat library. Probably not something you care the

Installing Modules

I would dearly like help installing modules on OSX. Particularly XML modules. Here's a short summary of my travails so far: * I go to install XML::Simple * I can't because it requires XML::Parser * I go to install XML::Parser * I can't because it requires Expat *

Re: Error installing modules from CPAN

On Friday, May 3, 2002, at 12:46 PM, Hans Holtan wrote: > This is clearly a very silly place to keep the cpan module and to place > the downloaded modules, but why is it wrong? > 'cpan_home' => q[y], Silliness aside, there's nothing wrong with using "~/y". The problem is that the 'cpan_home

Re: Error installing modules from CPAN

Ken, you are so right. Now I am blushing for my idiocy. It seems that the CPAN installer took my erroneous "y" answer to mean make a ~/y directory. This is clearly a very silly place to keep the cpan module and to place the downloaded modules, but why is it wrong? In other words why does it re

Re: Error installing modules from CPAN

On Friday, May 3, 2002, at 08:13 AM, Hans Holtan wrote: > I keep getting this set of errors when I try do install > directly from CPAN with: > > % sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell > > I have tried installing various modules but this is what I get > every time: > > cpan> install MD5 > Running make for

Re: Error installing modules from CPAN

Hans Holtan wrote: > I keep getting this set of errors when I try do install directly from > CPAN with: > > % sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell > > I have tried installing various modules but this is what I get every > time: > > cpan> install MD5 > Running make for G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.02.tar.gz > Fetching

Error installing modules from CPAN

I keep getting this set of errors when I try do install directly from CPAN with: % sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell I have tried installing various modules but this is what I get every time: cpan> install MD5 Running make for G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.02.tar.gz Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.

Re: installing modules

I checked out my machines last night, the one where I installed the developer's package does have the perl header file, the other one (where I had to reinstall X) didn't. I'm still not sure about the lack of echo, this might also be solved by installing the dev pack. on the machine (which I w

Re: installing modules

>Should I reinstall the developer software, making sure I'm not leaving >somthing out? (I can't remember if there is a 'custom' install possibility >with the dev package that maybe I didn't check.) This might also fix the >lack of echo when using CPAN. Am I the only one who gets this 'no-ech

Re: installing modules

The developer install doesn't have a customize option, so you get everything. I don't know about this lack of echo, since I install Perl modules manually, putting them in a non-standard place. -- Edward Moy Apple Computer,

Re: installing modules

It doesn't exist on my system, I do have a /System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE directory, but there is no perl.h anywhere on my computer, that I can find (I used the 'find') command when logged in as root to make sure everything was checked). The first thibg I did was install the developer packag

Re: installing modules

I seem to have /System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/perl.h on my system. Is it that it doesn't exist on yours or it does, but you still get that error message. I would suppose that the include files in /System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE are not installed by default, but come from the developer pack

Re: installing modules

I've had the exact same problem, it's not a version 10.03 problem though, this happened on 10.00 the same way. My CPAN has another 'issue' : when I type into it it doesn't echo to the screen, not a big deal but pretty weird. I know some perl on OS X geniuses out there have mentioned using CPAN

installing modules

i have tried to install several moudles, both using cpan and at the command line. i always get the following error, what am i missing/doing wrong? i just reinstall X (10.0.3) (You get this message, because MakeMaker could not find "/System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/perl.h") thanks for any sugg