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

Good evening monks, please let me bother you with another question.

I am attempting and failing at getting Acrobat::FDF to work on my server. Their install instructions seem straight forward, but seem a bit out of date.

You're supposed to copy FDF.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/Acrobat/ and fdf.so to /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Acrobat/FDF/, easy enough. Too bad, when I try to use Acrobat::FDF I get:

Can't locate loadable object for module Acrobat::FDF in @INC (@INC con
+tains: /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 .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/Acrobat/FDF.pm line 72
+1
Compilation failed in require at libs.pl line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at libs.pl line 3.

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Can anyone give me some insight as to how I'm messing up?

Thanks
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paul

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Re: Acrobat::FDF
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 17, 2002 at 21:33 UTC

    I suspect that if you place fdf.so in

    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/auto/Acrobat/FDF/

    as you put fdf.pm in /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/Acrobat/

    Or if you left fdf.so where it is and moved fdf.pm to

    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/Acrobat/

    that might solve your problem.

    Okay you lot, get your wings on the left, halos on the right. It's one size fits all, and "No!", you can't have a different color.
    Pick up your cloud down the end and "Yes" if you get allocated a grey one they are a bit damp under foot, but someone has to get them.
    Get used to the wings fast cos its an 8 hour day...unless the Govenor calls for a cyclone or hurricane, in which case 16 hour shifts are mandatory.
    Just be grateful that you arrived just as the tornado season finished. Them buggers are real work.

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      Each of those seem to return about the same results.

      Stupid Adobe


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      paul
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Re: Acrobat::FDF
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Nov 18, 2002 at 08:08 UTC 
    use ExtUtils::Installed;
my ($inst) = ExtUtils::Installed->new();
print grep /auto/, $inst->directories("Acrobat::FDF");

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    On my machine, and most default installs, all *.dll's should should go under $Config{sitearch}/auto/Distribution/Name, so Distrubution-Name can find it, or $Config{scriptdir}, so every perl module can find it.

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