1st time poster (please take it easy on me)...

I outsourced some work on RentACoder.com a long time ago, and a programmer built me 3 perl scripts for various tasks. These scripts work flawlessly in XP (using activestate perl) but I have recently switched over to Ubuntu Linux for my full time computer use (bye, bye M$). But now I am having a few issues getting one of the scripts to run. I have very little experience with perl, but do have a rough general knowledge, and I have been able to correct a number of issues thanks to my good friend Google.com :-P, but I am stumped on this one.

The script just freezes in the beginning. Using the "-T" (tainting checks) attribute I get the following error message:

Can't locate Util.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at autocomp.pl line 9.
and here is line 9 of "autocomp.pl":

use Util;

But the "Util.pm" file is in the same directory as my script (autocomp.pl). Shouldn't Perl know to check in the directory where the script is located for the "Util.pm" file?

The funny thing is that there is another script that also calls Util.pm, and it works fine, so I am not sure if this is the real cause for the script not working or not?

TiA,
-BassKozz

In reply to Script works in XP but not Ubuntu? by BassKozz

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