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in thread Can't Find pod2man When Installing Modules

pod2man converts Plain Old Documentation into man pages (nroff source). It should be a standard part of your perl distribution.

pod2man should not be essential to install modules on your system, but it is nice to have. You can install pod2man and its associated modules from the podlators distribution. Make sure that you read the README file first.

If you don't manage your system, then complaining to your sysadmin about not having a full perl install is also a choice. :)

Cheers,
Paul

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Can't Find pod2man When Installing Modules
by wavesail (Initiate) on Oct 03, 2001 at 05:09 UTC
    I can't seem to be able to install any modules. I just tried installing Podlators-1.10 and this came up:

    venus:/public_html/perl/podlators-1.10 > perl Makefile.PL
    Checking if your kit is complete...
    Looks good

    Warning: I could not locate your pod2man program. Please make sure, your pod2man program is in your PATH before you execute 'make'

    Writing Makefile for Pod venus:/public_html/perl/podlators-1.10 >

    I thought by installing the podlators-1.10 it would fix it so pod2man would be available?

    Jeff

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      Oh goodness, that is quite ironic, isn't it?

      The warning is from ExtUtils::MakeMaker. Given that it's just a warning, I would ignore it and try to continue with the install if possible. If a "make" fails, then you'll probably need to resort to manually installing the modules and/or programs you'll need. (Post if this is the case and I'll see what I can do to help.)

      Note that if you don't have root access on your box, then all your installs will complain unless you install into a local directory which you can write to. More information on that can be found in this node.

      Cheers,
      Paul

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        Thanks for your responses. I tried installing it with the info in the link you posted and I'm still getting that pod2man error:

        venus:/public_html/perl/Crypt-DES-2.03 > perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/u/USERID/perl

        Warning: I could not locate your pod2man program. Please make sure, your pod2man program is in your PATH before you execute 'make'

        Writing Makefile for Crypt::DES

        venus:/public_html/perl/Crypt-DES-2.03 > perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/MYUSERID/public_html/perl

        Warning: I could not locate your pod2man program. Please make sure, your pod2man program is in your PATH before you execute 'make'

        Writing Makefile for Crypt::DES Any ideas?

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