Hi,

I tried to install SOAP::Lite with CPAN like so : 

cpan[1]> install SOAP::Lite

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This lead to it installing dependencies, among them mod_perl, which resulted in it asking me where my apache source is : 

Appending installation info to /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.1/x86_64-linux-thre
+ad-multi/perllocal.pod
  PHRED/SOAP-Lite-1.20.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make install  -- OK
Running install for module 'Apache'
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GO/GOZER/mod_perl-1.31.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GO/GOZER/CHECKSUMS
Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GO/GOZER/mod_perl-1.31.t
+ar.gz ok
Configuring G/GO/GOZER/mod_perl-1.31.tar.gz with Makefile.PL
Enter `q' to stop search
Please tell me where I can find your apache src
 [../apache_x.x/src]

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The thing is, I think mod_perl is already installed : 

# zypper search apache2-mod_perl
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name                   | Summary         
--+------------------------+------------
i | apache2-mod_perl       | package   
  | apache2-mod_perl       | srcpackage
  | apache2-mod_perl-devel | package

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(I edited that output a bit due to verbosity, but you can see the gist, I hope). So, I'm a bit confused as to why cpan went to install mod_perl? I would have thought it would have picked up on what was already installed, even if that includes things installed without CPAN? I'm running SuSE linux, the version details are : 

 # cpan --version
/usr/bin/cpan version 1.61 calling Getopt::Std::getopts (version 1.10 
+[paranoid]),
running under Perl version 5.20.1.
  [Now continuing due to backward compatibility and excessive paranoia
+.
   See 'perldoc Getopt::Std' about $Getopt::Std::STANDARD_HELP_VERSION
+.]

# cat /etc/issue
Welcome to openSUSE 13.2 "Harlequin" - Kernel \r (\l).

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Any thoughts appreciated. Apologies if I have not posted this correctly - I've read from this site a lot, but this is my first post.

Thanks,

Niles

In reply to CPAN not detecting installed modules by nilesOien

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