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in thread Newbie Adding Module to Perl

I tried to go to the directory where AlarmCall.pm is and typing the following: root@uswsqa Sys# /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL Can't open perl script "Makefile.PL": No such file or directory Can you see what am I missing? I checked that perl is indeed in /usr/bin though I should not have to type the full path since /usr/bin is in roots path. Does Makefile.PL need the argument of AlarmCall.pm? Thanks!

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Re: Re: Re: Newbie Adding Module to Perl
by blaze (Friar) on Apr 09, 2003 at 23:11 UTC
    for me, i download modules to my /tmp directory, so id download Sys-AlarmCall-1.2.tar.gz..then id do the following: 
    $ cd /tmp
$ tar -zxvf Sys-AlarmCall-1.2.tar.gz

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    this is where it would show the files being unzipped and a directory call Sys-AlarmCall-1.2 would be created 
    $ cd Sys-AlarmCall-1.2

    [download]
    now we're in the Sys-AlarmCall-1.2 directory which is where Makefile.PL is 
    $ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make test
$ make install

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    so if you download the module to a directory called uswsqa Sys, then all you should have to do is substitute that directory for /tmp in the above instructions...

    even though CPAN.pm is suppose to be much easier, i dont push it much cause i once got bit by it, but using make is usually a very easy straight foward process

    hth
    Robert
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