perl Tk installation problems

jwlarson3rd has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

am trying to install Tk. I don't have root permission so I have to install it in my home directory. when I run make test I get all kinds oferrors. I have a simple script which checks installation. I am on a linux 2.4.25-ow1

perl -V
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Oct 16 2002 12:53:28
  @INC:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .
 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
print "Content-type: text/plain", "\n\n";
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use lib '/home/bthcraft/modules/Tk-804.027';
use Tk;
print "\@INC is @INC\n";
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with the following error Can't locate Tk/Event.pm in @INC I have reinstalled several times I don't understand the problem because Event is a directory in Tk-804.027 with Event.pm in it john larson

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Re: perl Tk installation problems by zentara (Cardinal) on Jun 02, 2004 at 21:24 UTC
I think your problem is that "use lib 'whatever' " expects all the modules to be directly under 'whatever' and named accordingly. What you should do is add '/home/bthcraft/modules/Tk-804.027' to your PERL5LIB in your .bashrc (or whatever you use). That will put it in @INC `PERL5LIB=$PERL5LIB:/home/bthcraft/modules/Tk-804.027 export PERL5LIB` [download] Also when you install, you should use that directory in the perl Makefile.PL step: `perl5 Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/bthcraft/modules/Tk-804.027` [download] If you are installing a binary package, you might have to adjust your directory structure. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: perl Tk installation problems by eserte (Deacon) on Jun 03, 2004 at 09:03 UTC
If you had only built Tk in your private directory but did not install it, then you should use the blib pragma instead of lib: `use blib '/home/bthcraft/modules/Tk-804.027'; use Tk;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]