problem with time-period pm

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


I am trying to install and run mon on a redhat 7.3 server, when I try 
+to
start mon
I get the following at example 1 So I try to install the Time-Period
module and
I get the following error at example 2 can  you  help me with what
module I am
missing or what else I may need to install?
tia,
Steve

example 1
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Here's the output when I try to start mon
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[root@admu002 mon]# ./mon start
Can't locate Time/Period.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6
+.1
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at ./mo
+n
line 50.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./mon line 50.
[root@admu002 mon]

example 2
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Here's the output when I try to install the Time-period module
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[root@admu002 tmp]# mv perl-Time-Period-1.20-5.i386.rpm
perl-Time-Period-1.20-5.i386
[root@admu002 tmp]# rpm -ivv perl-Time-Period-1.20-5.i386
D: ============== perl-Time-Period-1.20-5.i386
D: Expected size:        16276 = lead(96)+sigs(100)+pad(4)+data(16076)
D:   Actual size:        16276
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages create:mpool
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages create mode=0x42
D: locked   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D:      added binary package [0]
D: found 0 source and 1 binary packages
D: ========== +++ perl-Time-Period-1.20-5
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Depends create mode=0x42
D:   NO     A rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1   B
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) = 3.0.3-1
D:   NO     A rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1   B
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) = 3.0.4-1
D:   NO     A rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1   B
rpmlib(PayloadIsBzip2) = 3.0.5-1
D:   YES    A rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1   B
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) = 4.0-1
D:  Requires: rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1       YES (rpmli
+b
provides)
D:   YES    A rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1  B
rpmlib(VersionedDepend
encies) = 3.0.3-1
D:  Requires: rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1      YES (rpmli
+b
provides
)
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename create mode=0x42
D:  Requires: perl                                          YES (db
provides)
D: the "B" dependency needs an epoch (assuming same as "A")
        A perl <= 1:5.6.1       B perl > 5.001
D:   YES    A perl <= 1:5.6.1   B perl > 5.001
D:  Requires: perl > 5.001                                  YES (db
provides)
D:  Requires: perl(Exporter)                                YES (db
provides)
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name create mode=0x42
D:  Requires: perl-modules                                  NO
D: package perl-Time-Period-1.20-5 require not satisfied: perl-modules
D:   NO     A rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1    B
rpmlib(VersionedDepend
encies) = 3.0.3-1
D:   YES    A rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1    B
rpmlib(CompressedFileN
ames) = 3.0.4-1
D:  Requires: rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1        YES (rpmli
+b
provides
)
D:   NO     A rpmlib(PayloadIsBzip2) <= 3.0.5-1 B
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies)
= 3.0.3-1
D:   NO     A rpmlib(PayloadIsBzip2) <= 3.0.5-1 B
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) =
3.0.4-1
D:   YES    A rpmlib(PayloadIsBzip2) <= 3.0.5-1 B rpmlib(PayloadIsBzip
+2)
= 3.0.5
-1
D:  Requires: rpmlib(PayloadIsBzip2) <= 3.0.5-1             YES (rpmli
+b
provides
)
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname create mode=0x42
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Depends
error: failed dependencies:
        perl-modules   is needed by perl-Time-Period-1.20-5
D: ========== recording tsort relations
D: ========== tsorting packages (order, #predecessors, #succesors, tre
+e,
depth)
D:     0    0    1    0    0  perl-Time-Period-1.20-5
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname
D: verified db index       /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename
D: verified db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name
D: verified db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: removed  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: verified db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
[root@admu002 tmp]#
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Re: problem with time-period pm by zejames (Hermit) on Jul 03, 2002 at 17:06 UTC
Hello In fact, this is not a perl problem, but a RPM problem. From the output you submitted, we find `error: failed dependencies: perl-modules is needed by perl-Time-Period-1.20-5` [download] So you need to provides the package perl-modules. But your problem is that there only exists such a rpm in the PLD Linux Distribution, which is not your distribution... You probably tried to install a package that do not correspond to your distribution... RPM is a pain. If you want to avoid problem, I strongly advice you to install this module from CPAN HTH -- zejames	[reply] [d/l]
Re: problem with time-period pm by thunders (Priest) on Jul 03, 2002 at 17:01 UTC
I see several dependency problems in the output. You could try to locate every rpm library that was not found or not up to date but I'd try agin with a source distributionTime::Period(.tar.gz file from CPAN) or even better use CPANPLUS. I just installed that module ON Windows! using cpanplus, so it probably will work for you too.	[reply]
Re: problem with time-period pm by ides (Deacon) on Jul 03, 2002 at 18:51 UTC
Try installing the CPAN module via the .tar.gz file from cpan.org instead of from the RPM. I'm betting the RPM is broken. ----------------------------------- Frank Wiles <frank@wiles.org> http://frank.wiles.org	[reply]