PERL Beginners - Module Installation Question

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Module Installation Question

Stefan Hans

2004-10-24, 8:55 pm

Hi *,

I want to install the Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.11 with the prerequisites Parse::RecDescent and File::Temp.

Version:

This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi

@INC:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0

What I have done:

# cp ./lib/Parse/RecDescent.pm /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/

and

under File-Temp-0.14:

# perl Makefile.PL
# make
# make test
# make install

under Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.11:

# perl Makefile.PL

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Warning: prerequisite Parse::RecDescent 0 not found.
Writing Makefile for Spreadsheet::WriteExcel

My problem:

Warning: prerequisite Parse::RecDescent 0 not found.

Why can perl not find this RecDescent.pm under /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ ?

It is there:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77401 Oct 24 17:57 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/RecDescent.pm

This is my first time working with perl.

I highly appreciate any comments or suggestions.

Thx in advance

Stefan

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

2004-10-24, 8:55 pm

Stefan Hans wrote:
> What I have done:
>
> # cp ./lib/Parse/RecDescent.pm /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/

<snip>

> My problem:
>
> Warning: prerequisite Parse::RecDescent 0 not found.
>
> Why can perl not find this RecDescent.pm under /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ ?

Because it does not look for it there, but it expects to find it in for
instance /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Parse

Why didn't you install also Parse::RecDescent using Makefile.PL etc.?
Then you had probably not encountered this problem.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl

Chris Devers

2004-10-24, 8:55 pm

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Stefan Hans wrote:

> I want to install the Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.11 with the
> prerequisites Parse::RecDescent and File::Temp.
>
> [...]
>
> This is my first time working with perl.

Then save yourself a lot of time & aggrivation and learn to use the CPAN
shell tool.

You invoke it by running this line:

$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell

(Omit the sudo prefix if you're running as root, or better yet, quit
running as root and use sudo as above with a normal user.)

The first time you use the CPAN shell, it will spend five minutes or so
asking you questions about your environment. In most cases, the defaults
are fine, and you can just hit enter to accept them. (The one snag that
gets a lot of people deals with passive mode FTP for people behind
proxies or firewalls, but we'll deal with that if it comes up.)

Once the CPAN shell is configured, you get a prompt like this:

cpan>

From here, just run this command:

cpan> install Spreadsheet::WriteExcel

With this command, the CPAN shell will automatically download the
module, find & retrieve any dependencies like Parse::RecDescent and
File::Temp, and unpack, configure, make, test, and install for you.

This is *way* easier than the older way that you're trying to use :-)

--
Chris Devers

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