Hi...

I'm using Mandrake 9.2, and it came with Perl 5.8.1 preinstalled. I didn't have the need to manually install a module because the installation came pretty complete (GD, Tk, even DBI), till now... i needed to install DBD::InterBase to communicate to a server with this driver.

Downloaded and installed without any issues a local InterBase server to test on... I used CPAN for the module installation and everything went fine, until it came to "make install". Usually the problems come along in the "perl Makefile.pl" part, "make", or with "make test", weird... here's what it gives me: 

mkdir /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi: File exi
+sts at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 127
make: *** [pure_site_install] Error 255

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Now, I know that I don't have DBD::InterBase installed (I've tested this in more than a couple of ways).

I also tried doing the installation manually (downloaded the *.tar.gz, extracted it, etc.) thinking that maybe CPAN didn't have root privileges for the "make install" part, but it came about with the same results... and then, the bomb came on: i tried to install another module (two actually, Xmms control and Astro::Time) with exactly the same result!!! So now I know that something's wrong with my perl installation. I also tried to do CPAN on the ExtUtils::Install thinking that maybe it needs an upgrade, but CPAN says that its up-to-date.

I have googled pretty much the whole day trying to find others that have had the same problem but the page in which their complaints reside is unavailable or unanswered.

What I'm thinking is that maybe i can do a manual "make install", knowing that this part only copies the created files to their rightful place in the system, but i don't have a clue to where to put them.

I am great need of your wisdom.

Nihil

In reply to Problems Installing Modules by nihil2

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