Hi guys. I'm in the process of building/installing DBI into my personal directory (using Makefile.PL PREFIX=/my/home/space) as well as the supporting modules:

Storable - for DBD::Proxy and DBI::ProxyServer
Net::Daemon 0.22 - for DBD::Proxy and DBI::ProxyServer
RPC::PlServer 0.2001 - for DBD::Proxy and DBI::ProxyServer
Getopt::Long 2.17 - for DBI::Shell.

DBI, Storable and Net::Daemon all seemd to go fine, but when it came to RPC::PlServer I got the following message:

Checking for Storable ... You don't have installed the Storable package. Checking for Net::Daemon, 0.13 or later ... You don't have installed the Net::Daemon package, version 0.13 or later.

Missing modules are available from any CPAN mirror, for example

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module

Checking for Sys::Syslog ...

And then some stuff about 'can't locate syslog.ph in @INC' and 'you probably did not run the h2ph script after installing perl'.

By the way perl is in the normal place and was installed by root.

When I try to download/install them as a bundle using:

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::DBI'

I get the error 'mkdir /var/spool/cpan: No such file or directory at /opt/lib/perl5/5.00502/CPAN.pm line 1911'.

What I'm really asking is what is the best way to do this if I want to install everything in my own private lib? Thanks in advance for any replys! Billy.

In reply to Installing supporting modules for DBI by Billy

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