nac has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Total newb here. Please be patient! I'm not an aspiring perl programmer, just trying to get some software running on my computer
I'm using fedora 20
Got a big package of files with a bunch of perl scripts. We'll call them "Validators." The validators rely on a few perl modules that can't be downloaded through yum or cpan. These perl modules come with the validator package in a tarball. the validator instructions say to copy the tarball to /usr/lib/perl5/auto and extract it.I extract the tarball then go back to /usr/lib/perl5/auto then run:

Makefile.PL
make
make test (which fails)


when i try to run the validators, the main program which i'm trying to get up and running, i get a failure in the realm of:

can't locate XML::DOM::BagOfTricks in @INC
XML::DOM::BagOfTricks is a perlmod which was extracted from the tarball mention earlier

Basically I just need to figure out how to get XML::DOM::BagOfTricks to get reckognized by @INC

below is a link to my scratchpad. The top half is the readme for XML::DOM::BagOfTricks and the bottom half is the installation instructions for the "Validators"

nac's scratchpad
here is a list of what is in /usr/lib/perl5/auto:
arybase
attributes B
Carp
DB_File
Devel
Digest
Fcntl
File
Filter
GDBM_File
Hash
I18N
IO
IPC
Math
MIME
more_modules.zip
mro
NDBM_File
ODBM_File
Opcode
PerlIO
POSIX
re
sdbm
SDBM_File Sys
Text
Tie
Time
Unicode
XML
XML-DOM-BagOfTricks-0.05

more_modules.zip is the package i was told to move to this directory. when i unzipped it i got XML, XML-DOM-BagOfTricks-0.05.

as you can see on my scratchpad, the instructions say to do Makefile.PL here, but that doesn't work. The nearest place i could find Makefile.PL was in XML-DOM-BagOfTricks. I did Makefile.PL, then make, then make test, but make test failed.

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Re: Makefile.PL no such directory
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 08, 2015 at 21:36 UTC

    The validator instructions for installing XML::DOM::BagOfTricks are wrong.

    The way to (manually) install a module from a tarball is to extract the tarbal to some directory, like /tmp, then, in that directory, to run

    perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

    [download]

    You could also try to install the module automatically by using the OS package manager (I think rpm for RedHat?): http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=perl%28XML%3A%3ADOM%3A%3ABagOfTricks%29 - I don't know rpm but the following could work:

    rpm perl-XML-DOM-BagOfTricks

    [download]

    If that fails, you could also use cpan XML::DOM::BagOfTricks. But you should always use the OS package manager before manually trying to install modules into the Perl supplied by your OS.

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      then i tried make -d test -d being the option for debugging information and that spit out about 3 pages of gibberish. i can print it if you'd like
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      Hey thanks Corion. I did all that just now but make test failed:


      t/XML-DOM-BagOfTricks.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
      Non-zero exit status: 2
      Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
      Files=1, Tests=0, 1 wallclock secs ( 0.04 usr 0.01 sys + 0.17 cusr 0.02 csys = 0.24 CPU)
      Result: FAIL
      Failed 1/1 test programs. 0/0 subtests failed.
      make: *** test_dynamic Error 2
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        The 'make test' output you provided doesn't tell us much about the reason that the test failed. Is there a more helpful message emitted prior to the stuff you copy'n'pasted ?
        If not, run 
        perl -Mblib t/XML-DOM-BagOfTricks.t

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        and let us know what that outputs.

        Cheers,
        Rob
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